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FOSS4G 2009 Volunteers

2009-10-13T06:44:16Z

Wiki-Harleyp: /* Presentation Coordinators */

There are a number tasks at the conference where we will need extra hands. If you expect that you will be able to help out at times during the conference, then please add you name against the specific tasks here. If you are volunteering, please share your contact details with the coordinator.

=Tasks=
==Presentation Coordinators==

'''Contact Person:''' Harley Prowse <<HarleyP AT geobiz . co . nz>>

Presentation Coordinators are required to provide the following duties:

* Be in your designated room 10-15 minutes prior to the first presentation beginning.
* Ensure that each presentation does not go over the allotted time: 30 minutes including time for questions and hand over.
* Introduce each presentation to the audience - Presenters name, organisation and presentation title is sufficient. Details for each presentation, presenter and their bio's are on the FOSS4G2009 website.
* Provide subtle guidance to the presenter when they have 5 minutes left of their alloted time slot.
* Have on hand a phone and the Arinex contact details for any AV assistance/requirements
* Coordinator briefing notes can be found here [[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Image:Chairperson_briefing_notes_v3.pdf]]

{| style="width:75%;" border="1"
|-
! Date
! Time Slot
! Parkside Auditorium
! Parkside 110A
! Parkside G02
! Parkside G03
! Parkside G04
|-
! 21/10/2009
! 09:00-10:30
! Cameron Shorter
! N\A
! N\A
! N\A
! N\A
|-
! 21/10/2009
! 11:00-12:00
! Cameron Shorter
! Anne Fitzgerald or Bruce Bannerman
!
! Andrea Antonello
!
|-
! 21/10/2009
! 13:00-14:30
! Jeroen Ticheler
! Daniel Morissette
!
! Tutorial
!
|-
! 21/10/2009
! 15:00-16:30
! Tim Schaub
!
! Hanko Rubach
! Tutorial
!
|-
! 22/10/2009
! 8:30-10:00
! Geoff Zeiss
! N\A
! N\A
! N\A
! N\A
|-
! 22/10/2009
! 10:30-12:00
! Satish Sankaran
! Daniel Morissette
! Tutorial
! Tutorial
! Thierry Badard
|-
! 22/10/2009
! 13:00-14:30
! Simon Hope
!
! Tutorial
! Tutorial
! Raj Singh
|-
! 22/10/2009
! 15:00-16:30
! Raj Singh
! Katrina Sewell
! Tutorial
! Tutorial
! Thierry Badard
|-
! 23/10/2009
! 08:30-10:00
! Brad Spencer
!
! Tutorial
! Tutorial
!
|-
! 23/10/2009
! 10:30-12:00
! Cameron Shorter
!
! Tutorial
! Tutorial
! Raj Singh
|-
! 23/10/2009
! 13:00-14:30
! Bruce Bannerman
!
!
!
!
|}

Refer to program at: http://2009.foss4g.org/schedule/

Jody Garnett has offered to act as back up for Parkside 110A as he will be in the room for Demo Theatre reasons anyway.

==General Dogs-Body==
"I'll do anything, anywhere, anytime, so long as I still get to see all the presentations."

Activity organisors will be calling on these people as we get closer to the event.

Volunteers:
* Simon O'Keefe
* .

==Stuffing Conference delegate bags==

'''Coordinator:''' Bruce Bannerman <<bruce dot bannerman dot osgeo at gmail dot com>>

When: At this stage we're planning for 9am on Monday 19th October.

* Please check this link in case of changed details closer to the event.

Where: Sydney Convention and Exhibition Center

Volunteers:
* David Jonglez (confirmation one month before event).
* Tyler Mitchell
* Volker Mische (I might be late as my flight arrives that morning)
* Michael Smith
* John Reid
* Benjamin Chartier (like Volker Mische I may be late)
* [[Lorenzo Becchi]]
* Byron Cochrane
* Andrea Antonello
* Silvia Franceschi

==Workshop tear down==

'''Contact Person:''' Mark Leslie <>

We need to move computers after the workshops to make way for the Installfest.

When: Tuesday 20 October, after the workshops.

Where: In workshop rooms.

Coordinator: Mark Leslie

Volunteers:
* Simon O'Keefe
* Andrea Antonello
* Silvia Franceschi
*[[Lorenzo Becchi]] (if not in any meeting for FOSS4G2010)

==OSGeo Booth==

'''Contact Person:''' [[User:tmitchell|Tyler]] or [[User:Bruce.bannerman|Bruce]]

We need people to help 'man' (or is that 'person ;-) ) the OSGeo Booth during FOSS4G-2009.

The booth will be a centre of activity and you will get to meet a lot of the OSGeo personalities.

Please volunteer for a half hour session, or two, or three...

[[Lorenzo Becchi]] will stay at the OSGeo Booth most of the time. Escaping only for a couple of presentations or special meetings.

{| style="width:75%;" border="1"
|-
! Date
! Time Slot
!
!
!
!
!
|-
! 21/10/2009
! 10:15-10:45
! Tyler Mitchell
! Brent Wood
!
!
!
|-
! 21/10/2009
! 11:45-12:15
! Tyler Mitchell
! Bruce Bannerman
!
!
!
|-
! 21/10/2009
! 12:15-12:45
!
! Brent Wood
!
!
!
|-
! 21/10/2009
! 14:15-14:45
! Tyler Mitchell
! Bruce Bannerman
!
!
!
|-
! 22/10/2009
! 09:45-10:15
! Tyler Mitchell
! Bruce Bannerman
!
!
!
|-
! 22/10/2009
! 11:45-12:15
!
! Brent Wood
!
!
!
|-
! 22/10/2009
! 12:15-12:45
! Tyler Mitchell
! Bruce Bannerman
!
!
!
|-
! 22/10/2009
! 14:15-14:45
! Tyler Mitchell
! Brent Wood
!
!
!
|-
! 23/10/2009
! 09:45-10:15
! Tyler Mitchell
! Bruce Bannerman
!
!
!
|-
! 23/10/2009
! 11:45-12:15
!
! Brent Wood
!
!
!
|-
! 23/10/2009
! 12:15-12:45
! Tyler Mitchell
! Bruce Bannerman
!
!
!
|-
! 23/10/2009
! 14:15-14:45
! Tyler Mitchell
! Brent Wood
!
!
!
|}

FOSS4G 2009 Volunteers

2009-10-09T19:05:21Z

Wiki-Harleyp: /* Presentation Coordinators */

There are a number tasks at the conference where we will need extra hands. If you expect that you will be able to help out at times during the conference, then please add you name against the specific tasks here. If you are volunteering, please share your contact details with the coordinator.

=Tasks=
==Presentation Coordinators==

'''Contact Person:''' Harley Prowse <<HarleyP AT geobiz . co . nz>>

Presentation Coordinators are required to provide the following duties:

* Be in your designated room 10-15 minutes prior to the first presentation beginning.
* Ensure that each presentation does not go over the allotted time: 30 minutes including time for questions and hand over.
* Introduce each presentation to the audience - Presenters name, organisation and presentation title is sufficient
* Provide subtle guidance to the presenter when they have 5 minutes left of their alloted time slot.
* Have on hand a phone and the Arinex contact details for any AV assistance/requirements
* Coordinator briefing notes can be found here [[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Image:Chairperson_briefing_notes_v3.pdf]]

{| style="width:75%;" border="1"
|-
! Date
! Time Slot
! Parkside Auditorium
! Parkside 110A
! Parkside G02
! Parkside G03
! Parkside G04
|-
! 21/10/2009
! 09:00-10:30
! Cameron Shorter
! N\A
! N\A
! N\A
! N\A
|-
! 21/10/2009
! 11:00-12:00
! Cameron Shorter
! Anne Fitzgerald or Bruce Bannerman
!
! Andrea Antonello
!
|-
! 21/10/2009
! 13:00-14:30
! Jeroen Ticheler
! Daniel Morissette
!
! Tutorial
!
|-
! 21/10/2009
! 15:00-16:30
! Tim Schaub
!
! Hanko Rubach
! Tutorial
!
|-
! 22/10/2009
! 8:30-10:00
! Geoff Zeiss
! N\A
! N\A
! N\A
! N\A
|-
! 22/10/2009
! 10:30-12:00
! Satish Sankaran
! Daniel Morissette
! Tutorial
! Tutorial
! Thierry Badard
|-
! 22/10/2009
! 13:00-14:30
! Simon Hope
!
! Tutorial
! Tutorial
! Raj Singh
|-
! 22/10/2009
! 15:00-16:30
! Raj Singh
! Katrina Sewell
! Tutorial
! Tutorial
! Thierry Badard
|-
! 23/10/2009
! 08:30-10:00
! Brad Spencer
!
! Tutorial
! Tutorial
!
|-
! 23/10/2009
! 10:30-12:00
! Cameron Shorter
!
! Tutorial
! Tutorial
! Raj Singh
|-
! 23/10/2009
! 13:00-14:30
! Bruce Bannerman
!
!
!
!
|}

Refer to program at: http://2009.foss4g.org/schedule/

Jody Garnett has offered to act as back up for Parkside 110A as he will be in the room for Demo Theatre reasons anyway.

==General Dogs-Body==
"I'll do anything, anywhere, anytime, so long as I still get to see all the presentations."

Activity organisors will be calling on these people as we get closer to the event.

Volunteers:
* Simon O'Keefe
* .

==Stuffing Conference delegate bags==

'''Coordinator:''' Bruce Bannerman <<bruce dot bannerman dot osgeo at gmail dot com>>

When: At this stage we're planning for 9am on Monday 19th October.

* Please check this link in case of changed details closer to the event.

Where: Sydney Convention and Exhibition Center

Volunteers:
* David Jonglez (confirmation one month before event).
* Tyler Mitchell
* Volker Mische (I might be late as my flight arrives that morning)
* Michael Smith
* John Reid
* Benjamin Chartier (like Volker Mische I may be late)
* [[Lorenzo Becchi]]
* Byron Cochrane
* Andrea Antonello
* Silvia Franceschi

==Workshop tear down==

'''Contact Person:''' Mark Leslie <>

We need to move computers after the workshops to make way for the Installfest.

When: Tuesday 20 October, after the workshops.

Where: In workshop rooms.

Coordinator: Mark Leslie

Volunteers:
* Simon O'Keefe
* Andrea Antonello
* Silvia Franceschi
*[[Lorenzo Becchi]] (if not in any meeting for FOSS4G2010)

FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 33

2009-09-22T00:23:19Z

Wiki-Harleyp: /* Email to FOSS4G 2009 Presenters */

= Email to FOSS4G 2009 Presenters =

Email sent 22/9/2009

Dear Presenter,

I hope you have all had a chance to review the conference schedule (http://2009.foss4g.org/schedule/) to see when you are presenting and to experience that little flutter of presenter nerves now that you know you are all booked in!

Important presenter information/guidance is now available as a PDF download from the conference website: http://2009.foss4g.org/presentations/

If you have not already registered for the conference, then I would encourage you to get that done as soon as possible so that we can be sure that all of our presenters are able to attend. Also, the workshops are filling up fast!

If you are in doubt about your attendance, then please let us know as soon as possible as we need to ensure that the schedule remains as stable as possible from this point forward. We will be sending the program for printing at the end of this week.

Please be aware that there are still demonstration theatre slots available. This is a great chance to show off your latest project; or a cool hack, an example of your organisations work, or a new feature. The only restriction is to show running software (i.e. not a presentation).

Contact jody.garnett AT lisasoft.com if you would like to sign up for a slot, but do it now as these slots will not be available for long! For more information and the current demo theatre schedule visit: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Demonstration_Theatre

Regards

Harley Prowse
Presentation Co-ordinator (but really Simon has done more work on it than me, I just take the glory).

Disclaimer: I have done my best to maintain the presenter email list as accurately as possible but there have been a lot of changes recently. If you receive this email in error, then I do apologise. Please don't hesitate to contact me if this email generates any confusion about your participation as a presenter at the FOSS4G 2009 Conference.

FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 33

2009-09-22T00:22:26Z

Wiki-Harleyp: New page: = Email to FOSS4G 2009 Presenters = Dear Presenter, I hope you have all had a chance to review the conference schedule (http://2009.foss4g.org/schedule/) to see when you are presenting a...

= Email to FOSS4G 2009 Presenters =

Dear Presenter,

I hope you have all had a chance to review the conference schedule (http://2009.foss4g.org/schedule/) to see when you are presenting and to experience that little flutter of presenter nerves now that you know you are all booked in!

Important presenter information/guidance is now available as a PDF download from the conference website: http://2009.foss4g.org/presentations/

If you have not already registered for the conference, then I would encourage you to get that done as soon as possible so that we can be sure that all of our presenters are able to attend. Also, the workshops are filling up fast!

If you are in doubt about your attendance, then please let us know as soon as possible as we need to ensure that the schedule remains as stable as possible from this point forward. We will be sending the program for printing at the end of this week.

Please be aware that there are still demonstration theatre slots available. This is a great chance to show off your latest project; or a cool hack, an example of your organisations work, or a new feature. The only restriction is to show running software (i.e. not a presentation).

Contact jody.garnett AT lisasoft.com if you would like to sign up for a slot, but do it now as these slots will not be available for long! For more information and the current demo theatre schedule visit: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Demonstration_Theatre

Regards

Harley Prowse
Presentation Co-ordinator (but really Simon has done more work on it than me, I just take the glory).

Disclaimer: I have done my best to maintain the presenter email list as accurately as possible but there have been a lot of changes recently. If you receive this email in error, then I do apologise. Please don't hesitate to contact me if this email generates any confusion about your participation as a presenter at the FOSS4G 2009 Conference.

FOSS4G 2009 Press Releases

2009-09-22T00:17:47Z

Wiki-Harleyp: /* Press Releases */

=Press Releases=
* 18 Feb 2008, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 1]] Sydney selected to host FOSS4G in 2009.
* 5 May 2008, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 2]] Tour Hosts selected to manage the FOSS4G conference in Sydney 2009
* 20 Jan 2008, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 3]] Climate Change Integration Plugfest announcement
* 28 Jan 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 4]] Sponsorship and Exhibition Prospectus released, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 4 Cover|Cover Email]]
* 2 Feb 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 5]] Call for workshops and tutorials
* 2 Mar 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 6]] One week extension to call for workshops and tutorials
* 9 Mar 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 7]] Call for Abstracts, [[FOSS4G_2009_Press_Release_7_Translations|Translations]],
* 30 Mar 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 8]] Workshops and Tutorials announced
* 2 Apr 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 10]] Link to FOSS4G from your website
* 7 Apr 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 9]] Get your logo on the FOSS4G website before people visit to register
* 29 Apr 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 12]] FOSS4G Sponsor logos available
* 4 May 2009,[[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 11]] Registration for conference opens, [[FOSS4G_2009_Press_Release_11_Translations|Translations]], [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 11 Cover|Cover Email]]
* 16 May 2009,[[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 13]] Subscribing people to the announcement email list
* 25 May 2009,[[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 14]] Reminder - 2 weeks to submit abstracts + academic track
* 27 May 2009, [[OGC Press Release 1021]] OGC Webinar for OWS6 testbed + plug for CCIP, [[OGC Press Release 1021 Translations|Translations]], [[OGC Press Release 1021 Cover|Cover Email]]
* 8 June 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 15]] Professional Development Points for SSSI members attending FOSS4G
* 11 June 2009, [http://www.opengeospatial.org/pressroom/pressreleases/1046|OGC Call for Sponsors: Climate Challenge Integration Plugfest at FOSS4G]
* 15 June 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 16]] - Abstract Voting Open and Instructions
* 19 June 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 17]] - Get your friends to vote for your abstract
* 24 June 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 18]] - FOSS4G Abstract voting explained
* 19 July 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 19]] - Email to Successful presenters
* 19 July 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 20]] - Email to unsuccessful abstract applicants
* 20 July 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 21]] - FOSS4G Abstract selections announced, [[FOSS4G_2009_Press_Release_21_Translations|Translations]], [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 21 Cover|Cover Email]]
* 17 July 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 22]] - FOSS4G 2009 academic track - Selected full papers announced
* 20 July 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 23]] - Email to reserve list abstract applicants
* 3 August 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 24]] - Last Early Bird reminder
* 3 August 2009, [http://www.opengeospatial.org/pressroom/pressreleases/1072|OGC Call for Participation: Climate Challenge Integration Plugfest at FOSS4G]
* 14 August 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 26]] - sign up for Poster, InstallFest, Code Sprint, etc
* 19 August 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 25]] - call for sponsors to SIBA (after early bird)
* 22 August 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 27]] - draft program available
* 27 August 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 28]] - Simple steps to get your project on the FOSS4G Live DVD
* 6 September 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 29]] - What Windows installers should be on the FOSS4G Live DVD + Live DVD Status.
* 7 September 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 30]] - Got any great FOSS4G related Posters?
* 21 September 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 31]] - Program available, test the Live DVD
* 28 September 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 32]] - WMS Shootout
* 22 September 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 33]] - Email to Presenters only
== Upcoming milestones ==
For the complete milestone schedules, refer to: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Schedule

(milestones requiring press releases are in bold)

* 2 Feb 2009, '''Call for Workshops/Tutorials opens'''
* 2 Mar 2009, Call for Workshops/Tutorials closes
* 9 Mar 2009, '''Call for Abstracts opens'''
* 30 Mar 2009, Notification of acceptance for workshops/tutorials
* 4 Apr 2009, '''Registration for conference and tutorials opens'''
* 8 Jun 2009, Abstract submission deadline
* 20 Jul 2009, Abstract list announced. Ask presenters to email/blog/.. "Come see me at FOSS4G"
* 7 Aug 2009, '''Early bird registration deadline'''
----
* 14 Sep 2009, '''Completed program available on the wiki'''
* 20 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Workshop
* 21-23 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Presentations and Tutorials
* 24-25 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Code Sprint

==Press Release Process==
Announcements are sent out on: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/foss4g2009-announce

Process for sending press releases at: [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release Process]]

[[Category:FOSS4G2009]]
[[Category:FOSS4G]]

FOSS4G 2009 Volunteers

2009-09-21T23:38:00Z

Wiki-Harleyp: /* Presentation Coordinators */

FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 23

2009-07-20T08:53:09Z

Wiki-Harleyp: /* Results of your FOSS4G Abstract Proposal */

=Results of your FOSS4G Abstract Proposal=

_DRAFT_

20 August 2009, Sydney Australia.

To FOSS4G abstract proposer,

We are sorry to say that your abstract was not selected to be presented at FOSS4G 2009. However, we have selected your abstract as one of ten reserves. This means that if any of the 85 selected are unable to present, we may call upon your presentation as a replacement. This may happen anytime between now and the conference (and possibly at the conference!). We will keep you informed leading up to the conference and may request you to come to the conference prepared to present in case your services are needed.

If you are happy to act as a reserve, we would appreciate you letting us know as soon as possible (please reply to this email).

As I'm sure you can appreciate the process of abstract selection is a difficult one given the high number of quality submissions. The process for selecting abstracts is outlined below:

#A community vote via the abstract submission website
#A review of the public vote and further voting by the Organising Committee and selected high profile Session Chairs. This review was aimed at providing a good balance of content and also to make sure that the local region was represented amongst the presentations.
#The final 85 were selected by ranking based on community and Organising Committee votes.

We apologise, but given the volume of work and time constraints we are unable to provide individual feedback regarding the selections.

We appreciate and acknowledge the great efforts you made to submit your abstract and we'd like to inform you of a number of ways that you could still be involved with the conference:
* There is an Installfest where you can help users install your software and discuss usage and ideas
* There will be a demo theatre running during breaks, which will provide sponsors, exhibitors and open source projects with 10 minute slots to showcase live software.
* There will be a space within the conference to present a poster where you can publicise your work
* There are two evenings dedicated to unstructured Birds of a Feather sessions. Feel free to set one up around your area of interest and invite others to join you.
* ..and finally there will be a number of volunteer roles for people to help out with.

More details about these in the upcoming weeks, both through our mailing list and on the webiste: http://2009.foss4g.org/ Make sure you join the announcement email list to keep yourself up to date. http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/foss4g2009-announce

Yours sincerely,

Harley Prowse, coordinator of the abstract selection committee.

FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 23

2009-07-20T08:50:12Z

Wiki-Harleyp: New page: =Results of your FOSS4G Abstract Proposal= _DRAFT_ 20 August 2009, Sydney Australia. To FOSS4G abstract proposer, As I'm sure you can appreciate the process...

=Results of your FOSS4G Abstract Proposal=

_DRAFT_

20 August 2009, Sydney Australia.

To FOSS4G abstract proposer,

As I'm sure you can appreciate the process of abstract selection is a difficult one given the high number of quality submissions. The process for selecting abstracts is outlined below:

#A community vote via the abstract submission website
#A review of the public vote and further voting by the Organising Committee and selected high profile Session Chairs. This review was aimed at providing a good balance of content and also to make sure that the local region was represented amongst the presentations.
#The final 85 were selected by ranking based on community and Organising Committee votes.

We apologise, but given the volume of work and time constraints we are unable to provide individual feedback regarding the selections.

We appreciate and acknowledge the great efforts you made to submit your abstract and we'd like to inform you of a number of ways that you could still be involved with the conference:
* There is an Installfest where you can help users install your software and discuss usage and ideas
* There will be a demo theatre running during breaks, which will provide sponsors, exhibitors and open source projects with 10 minute slots to showcase live software.
* There will be a space within the conference to present a poster where you can publicise your work
* There are two evenings dedicated to unstructured Birds of a Feather sessions. Feel free to set one up around your area of interest and invite others to join you.
* ..and finally there will be a number of volunteer roles for people to help out with.

More details about these in the upcoming weeks, both through our mailing list and on the webiste: http://2009.foss4g.org/ Make sure you join the announcement email list to keep yourself up to date. http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/foss4g2009-announce

Yours sincerely,

Harley Prowse, coordinator of the abstract selection committee.

FOSS4G 2009 Press Releases

2009-07-20T08:48:01Z

Wiki-Harleyp:

Announcements are sent out on: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/foss4g2009-announce

Process for sending press releases at: [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release Process]]

* 18 Feb 2008, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 1]] Sydney selected to host FOSS4G in 2009.
* 5 May 2008, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 2]] Tour Hosts selected to manage the FOSS4G conference in Sydney 2009
* 20 Jan 2008, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 3]] Climate Change Integration Plugfest announcement
* 28 Jan 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 4]] Sponsorship and Exhibition Prospectus released, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 4 Cover|Cover Email]]
* 2 Feb 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 5]] Call for workshops and tutorials
* 2 Mar 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 6]] One week extension to call for workshops and tutorials
* 9 Mar 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 7]] Call for Abstracts, [[FOSS4G_2009_Press_Release_7_Translations|Translations]],
* 30 Mar 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 8]] Workshops and Tutorials announced
* 2 Apr 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 10]] Link to FOSS4G from your website
* 7 Apr 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 9]] Get your logo on the FOSS4G website before people visit to register
* 29 Apr 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 12]] FOSS4G Sponsor logos available
* 4 May 2009,[[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 11]] Registration for conference opens, [[FOSS4G_2009_Press_Release_11_Translations|Translations]], [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 11 Cover|Cover Email]]
* 16 May 2009,[[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 13]] Subscribing people to the announcement email list
* 25 May 2009,[[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 14]] Reminder - 2 weeks to submit abstracts + academic track
* 27 May 2009, [[OGC Press Release 1021]] OGC Webinar for OWS6 testbed + plug for CCIP, [[OGC Press Release 1021 Translations|Translations]], [[OGC Press Release 1021 Cover|Cover Email]]
* 8 June 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 15]] Professional Development Points for SSSI members attending FOSS4G
* 11 June 2009, [http://www.opengeospatial.org/pressroom/pressreleases/1046|OGC Call for Sponsors: Climate Challenge Integration Plugfest at FOSS4G]
* 15 June 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 16]] - Abstract Voting Open and Instructions
* 19 June 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 17]] - Get your friends to vote for your abstract
* 24 June 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 18]] - FOSS4G Abstract voting explained
* 19 July 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 19]] - Email to Successful presenters
* 19 July 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 20]] - Email to unsuccessful abstract applicants
* 20 July 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 21]] - FOSS4G Abstract selections announced, [[FOSS4G_2009_Press_Release_21_Translations|Translations]], [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 21 Cover|Cover Email]]
* 17 July 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 22]] - FOSS4G 2009 academic track - Selected full papers announced
* 20 July 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 23]] - Email to reserve list abstract applicants

== Upcoming milestones ==
For the complete milestone schedules, refer to: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Schedule

(milestones requiring press releases are in bold)

* 2 Feb 2009, '''Call for Workshops/Tutorials opens'''
* 2 Mar 2009, Call for Workshops/Tutorials closes
* 9 Mar 2009, '''Call for Abstracts opens'''
* 30 Mar 2009, Notification of acceptance for workshops/tutorials
* 4 Apr 2009, '''Registration for conference and tutorials opens'''
* 8 Jun 2009, Abstract submission deadline
* 20 Jul 2009, Abstract list announced. Ask presenters to email/blog/.. "Come see me at FOSS4G"
----
* 7 Aug 2009, '''Early bird registration deadline'''
* 14 Sep 2009, '''Completed program available on the wiki'''
* 20 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Workshop
* 21-23 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Presentations and Tutorials
* 24-25 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Code Sprint

FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 20

2009-07-20T08:40:41Z

Wiki-Harleyp: /* Results of your FOSS4G Abstract Proposal */

''To be sent to unsuccessful FOSS4G abstract applicants.''

=Results of your FOSS4G Abstract Proposal=

_DRAFT_

20 August 2009, Sydney Australia.

To FOSS4G abstract proposer,

We are sorry to say that your abstract was not selected to be presented at FOSS4G 2009. This year we received over 180 quality presentations of which we've had to select only 85.

As I'm sure you can appreciate the process of abstract selection is a difficult one given the high number of quality submissions. The process for selecting abstracts is outlined below:

#A community vote via the abstract submission website
#A review of the public vote and further voting by the Organising Committee and selected high profile Session Chairs. This review was aimed at providing a good balance of content and also to make sure that the local region was represented amongst the presentations.
#The final 85 were selected by ranking based on community and Organising Committee votes.

We apologise, but given the volume of work and time constraints we are unable to provide individual feedback regarding the selections.

We appreciate and acknowledge the great efforts you made to submit your abstract and we'd like to inform you of a number of ways that you could still be involved with the conference:
* There is an Installfest where you can help users install your software and discuss usage and ideas
* There will be a demo theatre running during breaks, which will provide sponsors, exhibitors and open source projects with 10 minute slots to showcase live software.
* There will be a space within the conference to present a poster where you can publicise your work
* There are two evenings dedicated to unstructured Birds of a Feather sessions. Feel free to set one up around your area of interest and invite others to join you.
* ..and finally there will be a number of volunteer roles for people to help out with.

More details about these in the upcoming weeks, both through our mailing list and on the webiste: http://2009.foss4g.org/ Make sure you join the announcement email list to keep yourself up to date. http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/foss4g2009-announce

Yours sincerely,

Harley Prowse, coordinator of the abstract selection committee.

FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 20

2009-07-18T11:27:55Z

Wiki-Harleyp: /* Results of your FOSS4G Abstract Proposal */

''To be sent to unsuccessful FOSS4G abstract applicants.''

=Results of your FOSS4G Abstract Proposal=

_DRAFT_

20 August 2009, Sydney Australia.

To FOSS4G abstract proposer,

We are sorry to say that your abstract was not selected to be presented at FOSS4G 2009. There were lots of incredibly high quality presentations offered, of which 85 were selected from 185.

The process for selecting abstracts was:
#Community Vote via the abstract submission website
#Review and voting by the Organising Committee and selected high profile Session Chairs. This review was aimed at providing a good balance of topics and themes and also to make sure that the local region was represented in the presentations.
#Final 85 selected by ordering based on OC and Community Vote with adjustments to ensure no authors present two papers

Given the number of papers involved and the time constraints on our Organising Committee, no individual feedback is possible as to why your presentation was not selected.

There are still a few ways for you to present at FOSS4G. These include:
* There will be a demo theater running during breaks, which will provide sponsors and exhibitors with 10 minute presentation slots.
* There will be a limited number of posters for people to promote their projects.
* There are two evenings dedicated to unstructured Birds of a Feather sessions. Feel free to set one up around your area of interest and invite others to join you.
* And there will be a number of volunteer roles for people to help out with.

More details about these in the upcoming weeks. Make sure you join the announcement email list to keep yourself up to date. http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/foss4g2009-announce

Yours sincerely,

Harley Prowse, coordinator of the abstract selection committee.

FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 19

2009-07-18T11:22:29Z

Wiki-Harleyp: /* Congratulations, Your FOSS4G Abstract was selected */

''To be sent to successful FOSS4G abstract applicants.''

=Congratulations, Your FOSS4G Abstract was selected=

_DRAFT_

20 August 2009, Sydney Australia.

To FOSS4G abstract proposer,

We are glad to say that one of your proposed abstracts was selected to be presented at FOSS4G 2009. This is quite an honour, considering yours was one of only 85 selected from 185 incredibly high quality presentations.

If you submitted more than one presentation please see the list of selected presentations on the conference website to find out which of yours was selected.

The process for selecting abstracts was:
#Community Vote via the abstract submission website
#Review and voting by the Organising Committee and selected high profile Session Chairs. This review was aimed at providing a good balance of topics and themes and also to make sure that the local region was represented in the presentations.
#Final 85 selected by ordering based on OC and Community Vote with adjustments to ensure no authors present two papers

What next?
# Blog like crazy. Tell the world about FOSS4G and your presentation. Tell email lists, blogs, newspapers, whoever will listen. We want to make FOSS4G a huge success, and prior experience shows that the most likely way for people to be convinced they should come to FOSS4G is by hearing about it via blogs, email lists, personal recommendation, from someone the know and respect.
# You may wish to adjust your abstract to make it more compelling, take account of the latest developments in your project, or to include mention of another presentation that was not selected. We will advise you when we will be accepting abstarct changes and what the process for this will be. We will ask that you keep the presentation on the same topic as the community voted for.
# Maybe you are an organisation and would like to purchase a booth or sponsorship.
# Be sure to register for the conference before the early bird registration period expires (7th of August).

More details will be available in the upcoming weeks. Make sure you join the announcement email list to keep yourself up to date. http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/foss4g2009-announce

IMPORTANT: If you no longer wish to present, or are now not planning to attend the conference, please advise us of this immediately so that we can promote a presentation from our reserve list to take your place.

Yours sincerely,

Harley Prowse, coordinator of the abstract selection committee.

FOSS4G 2009 Program

2009-07-05T09:09:21Z

Wiki-Harleyp: /* Timeline */

Back to [[FOSS4G 2009]]...

= General =

The overall conference programme can be found at: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pm1bvJQodiW3WBYGU7MM0Og

=Presentations=

==Voting==

Presentations make up a large part of the conference program. During the period of 15th June to 28th June 2009 all submitted presentations from both the general and academic track will be open to public voting.

Reviewer are asked to consider the conference theme of "User Driven" when rating presentations. We want to make sure we have presentations for both GIS developers and systems integrators, and Geospatial Open Source Business Case Studies useful for potential purchases of FOSS4G software systems.

The steps below need to be followed to vote on presentations:

1. Go to the main conference website and follow the links to vote on presentations. This will direct you to the presentations system. You need to register to vote on presentations. Registration is simple. If you have already registered to submit a presentation then you do not need to register again, please use your existing credentials.

[[Image:Foss4gPVote1.png]]

2. Once logged in you'll be prompted to vote for your favourite abstracts. Click on the link

[[Image:Foss4gPVote2.png]]

3. All the presentations are displayed. Each presentation appears together with the title, author and abstract. Below are tags which can be selected to display presentations with a common theme. You can vote on the presentation by selecting the 'no', 'slight' or 'huge' options, your vote is cast as soon as you select one of the options. However you can change your mind later if you wish

[[Image:Foss4gPVote3.png]]

4. If you wish to amend your choice then you can click on your original selection to change it. You don't have to vote on all presentations in one session, the system will remember your selections. Happy voting

[[Image:Foss4gPVote4.png]]

----

==Ranking==

After public voting has closed each presentation was given a score based upon the following criteria:

0 = no interest
1 = slight interest
2 = huge interest

The collated scores were then provided to the presentation committee made up of the following:

Organising Committee (Local & OSGeo)

* Cameron Shorter , LISAsoft (Chair)
* Tim Bowden , Mapforge
* Shoaib Burq , Geoscience Australia
* Bruce Bannerman , Bureau of Meteorology
* Ben Searle , Office of Spatial Data Management
* Simon Hope , ESRI Australia
* Harley Prowse , Geographic Business Solutions Ltd , Auckland, New Zealand.
* Jody Garnett , LISAsoft
* Mark Leslie , LISAsoft
* Volker Mische
* Jeff McKenna , OSGeo conference committee Chair
* Paul Ramsey , OSGeo Board Representative
* Tyler Mitchell , OSGeo Executive Director

Conference Chairs

* Geoff Zeiss (Open Source in Government programs)
* Venkatesh Raghavan (Open Source Geospatial in Asia)
* Anne Fitzgerald ( Open Data & Licenses)
* Satish Sankaran (Integrating Open Source and Proprietary)
* Raj Singh ( Integrating Open Source using Open Standards)

===Guidance for voting committee & conference chairs===

Each committee member is responsible for making their final selection (from the full 183) of presentations into the general presentation track, which includes selecting 85 presentations. Supplementary to the 85 presentations in the general track the committee is invited to select 10 presentations which will form a reserve list, should a selected presenter pull out. The reserve list will also be used if a presentation is selected for the academic track (ie one from the reserve list will take its place). The following guidance is made to the committee:

* An online spreadsheet is provided to enter your preferences '''IMPORTANT - Please do not re-order the spreadsheet!'''
* 0 means rejected, 1 means accepted and R means Reserve
* Each presentation is listed, together with a URL link to the full presentation details online.
* Presentation selection should consider the overall conference theme of 'user driven'. The local organising committee are seeking a good balance of content (ie technology, business and case studies) and a representation of regional content is important. Selection should avoid duplicate content and we are seeking to give as many individuals the chance to present as possible therefore duplication of presenters should be minimised.
* Conference Chairs get one guaranteed presentation for their session. To tell us which one you want to be guaranteed, highlight it in your column in the spreadsheet. Naturally, your selection should be in line with the general theme of the session you are chairing (see above).

Final presentation selection is to be made by the committee by the 14th July 5pm Sydney Time (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=7&day=14&year=2009&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p1=240). '''No late votes will be accepted'''. Final adjustments taking into account the academic presentations will be made around 18-19 July with authors being notified by the 20th July. All notifications should include an invite to provide a poster for the poster boards and\or submit a request to take part in the demonstration theatre.

==Sessions==

Sessions are groups of two or three presentations. Each presentation is 30 minutes inclusive of change over, set up, content and questions.

= Timeline =
The following dates are relevant to general presentations only. Academic presentation dates can be found here[[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Call4papers]]

July
*Monday 6th - presentation data extracted from Django by Volker
*Tuesday 7th - Spreadsheet on Google + guidance email ready
*Monday 13th - press release ready for translation
*Tuesday 14th - Committee vote closed
*18-19th - Academic Track presentations removed from General Track if selected
*Monday 20th - Notify authors + press release out.

= Logistics =

==Presentation Preparation Room==

Parkside G07 [http://www.scec.com.au/rooms/fact_sheet.cfm?ObjectID=145] is reserved as the presentation preparation room. This room will be available to presenters prior to their presentation. The following facilities will be provided:

==Presentation upload facilities==

==Presentation Laptop and room facilities==
Each presentation room will be set up to include the following:

= Guidelines for presenters =
Presenters may provide their own laptop, if you are please ensure you are in the room ahead of your allotted time to ensure an efficient change over.

= Guidelines for session coordinators =

= Content Streaming =

== Academic Track ==

FOSS4G 2009 will be running a seperate academic track, more details can be found here [[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Call4papers]]

[[Category:FOSS4G2009]]

FOSS4G 2009 Program

2009-07-05T09:06:06Z

Wiki-Harleyp: /* Guidance for voting committee & conference chairs */

Back to [[FOSS4G 2009]]...

= General =

The overall conference programme can be found at: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pm1bvJQodiW3WBYGU7MM0Og

=Presentations=

==Voting==

Presentations make up a large part of the conference program. During the period of 15th June to 28th June 2009 all submitted presentations from both the general and academic track will be open to public voting.

Reviewer are asked to consider the conference theme of "User Driven" when rating presentations. We want to make sure we have presentations for both GIS developers and systems integrators, and Geospatial Open Source Business Case Studies useful for potential purchases of FOSS4G software systems.

The steps below need to be followed to vote on presentations:

1. Go to the main conference website and follow the links to vote on presentations. This will direct you to the presentations system. You need to register to vote on presentations. Registration is simple. If you have already registered to submit a presentation then you do not need to register again, please use your existing credentials.

[[Image:Foss4gPVote1.png]]

2. Once logged in you'll be prompted to vote for your favourite abstracts. Click on the link

[[Image:Foss4gPVote2.png]]

3. All the presentations are displayed. Each presentation appears together with the title, author and abstract. Below are tags which can be selected to display presentations with a common theme. You can vote on the presentation by selecting the 'no', 'slight' or 'huge' options, your vote is cast as soon as you select one of the options. However you can change your mind later if you wish

[[Image:Foss4gPVote3.png]]

4. If you wish to amend your choice then you can click on your original selection to change it. You don't have to vote on all presentations in one session, the system will remember your selections. Happy voting

[[Image:Foss4gPVote4.png]]

----

==Ranking==

After public voting has closed each presentation was given a score based upon the following criteria:

0 = no interest
1 = slight interest
2 = huge interest

The collated scores were then provided to the presentation committee made up of the following:

Organising Committee (Local & OSGeo)

* Cameron Shorter , LISAsoft (Chair)
* Tim Bowden , Mapforge
* Shoaib Burq , Geoscience Australia
* Bruce Bannerman , Bureau of Meteorology
* Ben Searle , Office of Spatial Data Management
* Simon Hope , ESRI Australia
* Harley Prowse , Geographic Business Solutions Ltd , Auckland, New Zealand.
* Jody Garnett , LISAsoft
* Mark Leslie , LISAsoft
* Volker Mische
* Jeff McKenna , OSGeo conference committee Chair
* Paul Ramsey , OSGeo Board Representative
* Tyler Mitchell , OSGeo Executive Director

Conference Chairs

* Geoff Zeiss (Open Source in Government programs)
* Venkatesh Raghavan (Open Source Geospatial in Asia)
* Anne Fitzgerald ( Open Data & Licenses)
* Satish Sankaran (Integrating Open Source and Proprietary)
* Raj Singh ( Integrating Open Source using Open Standards)

===Guidance for voting committee & conference chairs===

Each committee member is responsible for making their final selection (from the full 183) of presentations into the general presentation track, which includes selecting 85 presentations. Supplementary to the 85 presentations in the general track the committee is invited to select 10 presentations which will form a reserve list, should a selected presenter pull out. The reserve list will also be used if a presentation is selected for the academic track (ie one from the reserve list will take its place). The following guidance is made to the committee:

* An online spreadsheet is provided to enter your preferences '''IMPORTANT - Please do not re-order the spreadsheet!'''
* 0 means rejected, 1 means accepted and R means Reserve
* Each presentation is listed, together with a URL link to the full presentation details online.
* Presentation selection should consider the overall conference theme of 'user driven'. The local organising committee are seeking a good balance of content (ie technology, business and case studies) and a representation of regional content is important. Selection should avoid duplicate content and we are seeking to give as many individuals the chance to present as possible therefore duplication of presenters should be minimised.
* Conference Chairs get one guaranteed presentation for their session. To tell us which one you want to be guaranteed, highlight it in your column in the spreadsheet. Naturally, your selection should be in line with the general theme of the session you are chairing (see above).

Final presentation selection is to be made by the committee by the 14th July 5pm Sydney Time (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=7&day=14&year=2009&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p1=240). '''No late votes will be accepted'''. Final adjustments taking into account the academic presentations will be made around 18-19 July with authors being notified by the 20th July. All notifications should include an invite to provide a poster for the poster boards and\or submit a request to take part in the demonstration theatre.

==Sessions==

Sessions are groups of two or three presentations. Each presentation is 30 minutes inclusive of change over, set up, content and questions.

= Timeline =
The following dates are relevant to general presentations only. Academic presentation dates can be found here[[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Call4papers]]

July
*Monday 6th - presentation data extracted from Django by Volker
*Tuesday 7th - Spreadsheet on Google + guidance email ready
*Monday 13th - press release ready for translation
*Tuesday 14th - Commitee vote closed + theirry rejections
*18-19th - Academic Track presentations removed from General Track if selected
*Monday 20th - Notify authors + press release out.

= Logistics =

==Presentation Preparation Room==

Parkside G07 [http://www.scec.com.au/rooms/fact_sheet.cfm?ObjectID=145] is reserved as the presentation preparation room. This room will be available to presenters prior to their presentation. The following facilities will be provided:

==Presentation upload facilities==

==Presentation Laptop and room facilities==
Each presentation room will be set up to include the following:

= Guidelines for presenters =
Presenters may provide their own laptop, if you are please ensure you are in the room ahead of your allotted time to ensure an efficient change over.

= Guidelines for session coordinators =

= Content Streaming =

== Academic Track ==

FOSS4G 2009 will be running a seperate academic track, more details can be found here [[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Call4papers]]

[[Category:FOSS4G2009]]

FOSS4G 2009 Program

2009-07-05T09:04:29Z

Wiki-Harleyp: /* Guidance for voting committee & conference chairs */

Back to [[FOSS4G 2009]]...

= General =

The overall conference programme can be found at: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pm1bvJQodiW3WBYGU7MM0Og

=Presentations=

==Voting==

Presentations make up a large part of the conference program. During the period of 15th June to 28th June 2009 all submitted presentations from both the general and academic track will be open to public voting.

Reviewer are asked to consider the conference theme of "User Driven" when rating presentations. We want to make sure we have presentations for both GIS developers and systems integrators, and Geospatial Open Source Business Case Studies useful for potential purchases of FOSS4G software systems.

The steps below need to be followed to vote on presentations:

1. Go to the main conference website and follow the links to vote on presentations. This will direct you to the presentations system. You need to register to vote on presentations. Registration is simple. If you have already registered to submit a presentation then you do not need to register again, please use your existing credentials.

[[Image:Foss4gPVote1.png]]

2. Once logged in you'll be prompted to vote for your favourite abstracts. Click on the link

[[Image:Foss4gPVote2.png]]

3. All the presentations are displayed. Each presentation appears together with the title, author and abstract. Below are tags which can be selected to display presentations with a common theme. You can vote on the presentation by selecting the 'no', 'slight' or 'huge' options, your vote is cast as soon as you select one of the options. However you can change your mind later if you wish

[[Image:Foss4gPVote3.png]]

4. If you wish to amend your choice then you can click on your original selection to change it. You don't have to vote on all presentations in one session, the system will remember your selections. Happy voting

[[Image:Foss4gPVote4.png]]

----

==Ranking==

After public voting has closed each presentation was given a score based upon the following criteria:

0 = no interest
1 = slight interest
2 = huge interest

The collated scores were then provided to the presentation committee made up of the following:

Organising Committee (Local & OSGeo)

* Cameron Shorter , LISAsoft (Chair)
* Tim Bowden , Mapforge
* Shoaib Burq , Geoscience Australia
* Bruce Bannerman , Bureau of Meteorology
* Ben Searle , Office of Spatial Data Management
* Simon Hope , ESRI Australia
* Harley Prowse , Geographic Business Solutions Ltd , Auckland, New Zealand.
* Jody Garnett , LISAsoft
* Mark Leslie , LISAsoft
* Volker Mische
* Jeff McKenna , OSGeo conference committee Chair
* Paul Ramsey , OSGeo Board Representative
* Tyler Mitchell , OSGeo Executive Director

Conference Chairs

* Geoff Zeiss (Open Source in Government programs)
* Venkatesh Raghavan (Open Source Geospatial in Asia)
* Anne Fitzgerald ( Open Data & Licenses)
* Satish Sankaran (Integrating Open Source and Proprietary)
* Raj Singh ( Integrating Open Source using Open Standards)

===Guidance for voting committee & conference chairs===

Each committee member is responsible for making their final selection (from the full 183) of presentations into the general presentation track, which includes selecting 85 presentations. Supplementary to the 85 presentations in the general track the committee is invited to select 10 presentations which will form a reserve list, should a selected presenter pull out. The reserve list will also be used if a presentation is selected for the academic track (ie one from the reserve list will take its place). The following guidance is made to the committee:

* An online spreadsheet is provided to enter your preferences '''IMPORTANT - Please do not re-order the spreadsheet!'''
* 0 means rejected, 1 means accepted and R means Reserve
* Each presentation is listed, together with a URL link to the full presentation details online.
* Presentation selection should consider the overall conference theme of 'user driven'. The local organising committee are seeking a good balance of content (ie technology, business and case studies) and a representation of regional content is important. Selection should avoid duplicate content and we are seeking to give as many individuals the chance to present as possible therefore duplication of presenters should be minimised.
* Conference Chairs get one guaranteed presentation for their session. To tell us which one you want to be guaranteed, highlight it in your column in the spreadsheet.

Final presentation selection is to be made by the committee by the 14th July 5pm Sydney Time (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=7&day=14&year=2009&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p1=240). '''No late votes will be accepted'''. Final adjustments taking into account the academic presentations will be made around 18-19 July with authors being notified by the 20th July. All notifications should include an invite to provide a poster for the poster boards and\or submit a request to take part in the demonstration theatre.

==Sessions==

Sessions are groups of two or three presentations. Each presentation is 30 minutes inclusive of change over, set up, content and questions.

= Timeline =
The following dates are relevant to general presentations only. Academic presentation dates can be found here[[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Call4papers]]

July
*Monday 6th - presentation data extracted from Django by Volker
*Tuesday 7th - Spreadsheet on Google + guidance email ready
*Monday 13th - press release ready for translation
*Tuesday 14th - Commitee vote closed + theirry rejections
*18-19th - Academic Track presentations removed from General Track if selected
*Monday 20th - Notify authors + press release out.

= Logistics =

==Presentation Preparation Room==

Parkside G07 [http://www.scec.com.au/rooms/fact_sheet.cfm?ObjectID=145] is reserved as the presentation preparation room. This room will be available to presenters prior to their presentation. The following facilities will be provided:

==Presentation upload facilities==

==Presentation Laptop and room facilities==
Each presentation room will be set up to include the following:

= Guidelines for presenters =
Presenters may provide their own laptop, if you are please ensure you are in the room ahead of your allotted time to ensure an efficient change over.

= Guidelines for session coordinators =

= Content Streaming =

== Academic Track ==

FOSS4G 2009 will be running a seperate academic track, more details can be found here [[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Call4papers]]

[[Category:FOSS4G2009]]

FOSS4G 2009 Program

2009-07-05T08:23:06Z

Wiki-Harleyp: /* Ranking */

Back to [[FOSS4G 2009]]...

= General =

The overall conference programme can be found at: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pm1bvJQodiW3WBYGU7MM0Og

=Presentations=

==Voting==

Presentations make up a large part of the conference program. During the period of 15th June to 28th June 2009 all submitted presentations from both the general and academic track will be open to public voting.

Reviewer are asked to consider the conference theme of "User Driven" when rating presentations. We want to make sure we have presentations for both GIS developers and systems integrators, and Geospatial Open Source Business Case Studies useful for potential purchases of FOSS4G software systems.

The steps below need to be followed to vote on presentations:

1. Go to the main conference website and follow the links to vote on presentations. This will direct you to the presentations system. You need to register to vote on presentations. Registration is simple. If you have already registered to submit a presentation then you do not need to register again, please use your existing credentials.

[[Image:Foss4gPVote1.png]]

2. Once logged in you'll be prompted to vote for your favourite abstracts. Click on the link

[[Image:Foss4gPVote2.png]]

3. All the presentations are displayed. Each presentation appears together with the title, author and abstract. Below are tags which can be selected to display presentations with a common theme. You can vote on the presentation by selecting the 'no', 'slight' or 'huge' options, your vote is cast as soon as you select one of the options. However you can change your mind later if you wish

[[Image:Foss4gPVote3.png]]

4. If you wish to amend your choice then you can click on your original selection to change it. You don't have to vote on all presentations in one session, the system will remember your selections. Happy voting

[[Image:Foss4gPVote4.png]]

----

==Ranking==

After public voting has closed each presentation was given a score based upon the following criteria:

0 = no interest
1 = slight interest
2 = huge interest

The collated scores were then provided to the presentation committee made up of the following:

Organising Committee (Local & OSGeo)

* Cameron Shorter , LISAsoft (Chair)
* Tim Bowden , Mapforge
* Shoaib Burq , Geoscience Australia
* Bruce Bannerman , Bureau of Meteorology
* Ben Searle , Office of Spatial Data Management
* Simon Hope , ESRI Australia
* Harley Prowse , Geographic Business Solutions Ltd , Auckland, New Zealand.
* Jody Garnett , LISAsoft
* Mark Leslie , LISAsoft
* Volker Mische
* Jeff McKenna , OSGeo conference committee Chair
* Paul Ramsey , OSGeo Board Representative
* Tyler Mitchell , OSGeo Executive Director

Conference Chairs

* Geoff Zeiss
* Venkatesh Raghavan
* Anne Fitzgerald
* Satish Sankaran
* Raj Singh

Each committee member is responsible for making their final selection (from the full 183) of presentations into the general presentation track, which includes selecting 85 presentations. Supplementary to the 85 presentations in the general track the committee is invited to select 10 presentations which will form a reserve list, should a selected presenter pull out. The reserve list will also be used if a presentation is selected for the academic track (ie one from the reserve list will take its place). The following guidance is made to the committee:

Presentation selection should consider the overall conference theme of 'user driven'. The local organising committee are seeking a good balance of content (ie technology, business and case studies) and a representation of regional content is important. Selection should avoid duplicate content and we are seeking to give as many individuals the chance to present as possible therefore duplication of presenters should be minimised.

Conference Chairs get one guaranteed presentation for their session. To tell us which one you want to be guaranteed, highlight it in your column in the spreadsheet.

IMPORTANT - Please do not re-order the spreadsheet!

Final presentation selection is to be made by the committee by the 14th July. Final adjustments taking into account the academic presentations will be made around 18-19 July with authors being notified by the 20th July. All notifications should include an invite to provide a poster for the poster boards and\or submit a request to take part in the demonstration theatre.

==Sessions==

Sessions are groups of two or three presentations. Each presentation is 30 minutes inclusive of change over, set up, content and questions.

= Timeline =
The following dates are relevant to general presentations only. Academic presentation dates can be found here[[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Call4papers]]

July
*Monday 6th - presentation data extracted from Django by Volker
*Tuesday 7th - Spreadsheet on Google + guidance email ready
*Monday 13th - press release ready for translation
*Tuesday 14th - Commitee vote closed + theirry rejections
*18-19th - Academic Track presentations removed from General Track if selected
*Monday 20th - Notify authors + press release out.

= Logistics =

==Presentation Preparation Room==

Parkside G07 [http://www.scec.com.au/rooms/fact_sheet.cfm?ObjectID=145] is reserved as the presentation preparation room. This room will be available to presenters prior to their presentation. The following facilities will be provided:

==Presentation upload facilities==

==Presentation Laptop and room facilities==
Each presentation room will be set up to include the following:

= Guidelines for presenters =
Presenters may provide their own laptop, if you are please ensure you are in the room ahead of your allotted time to ensure an efficient change over.

= Guidelines for session coordinators =

= Content Streaming =

== Academic Track ==

FOSS4G 2009 will be running a seperate academic track, more details can be found here [[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Call4papers]]

[[Category:FOSS4G2009]]

FOSS4G 2009 Program

2009-07-05T08:20:42Z

Wiki-Harleyp: /* Ranking */

Back to [[FOSS4G 2009]]...

= General =

The overall conference programme can be found at: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pm1bvJQodiW3WBYGU7MM0Og

=Presentations=

==Voting==

Presentations make up a large part of the conference program. During the period of 15th June to 28th June 2009 all submitted presentations from both the general and academic track will be open to public voting.

Reviewer are asked to consider the conference theme of "User Driven" when rating presentations. We want to make sure we have presentations for both GIS developers and systems integrators, and Geospatial Open Source Business Case Studies useful for potential purchases of FOSS4G software systems.

The steps below need to be followed to vote on presentations:

1. Go to the main conference website and follow the links to vote on presentations. This will direct you to the presentations system. You need to register to vote on presentations. Registration is simple. If you have already registered to submit a presentation then you do not need to register again, please use your existing credentials.

[[Image:Foss4gPVote1.png]]

2. Once logged in you'll be prompted to vote for your favourite abstracts. Click on the link

[[Image:Foss4gPVote2.png]]

3. All the presentations are displayed. Each presentation appears together with the title, author and abstract. Below are tags which can be selected to display presentations with a common theme. You can vote on the presentation by selecting the 'no', 'slight' or 'huge' options, your vote is cast as soon as you select one of the options. However you can change your mind later if you wish

[[Image:Foss4gPVote3.png]]

4. If you wish to amend your choice then you can click on your original selection to change it. You don't have to vote on all presentations in one session, the system will remember your selections. Happy voting

[[Image:Foss4gPVote4.png]]

----

==Ranking==

After public voting has closed each presentation was given a score based upon the following criteria:

0 = no interest
1 = slight interest
2 = huge interest

The collated scores were then provided to the presentation committee made up of the following:

Organising Committee (Local & OSGeo)

* Cameron Shorter , LISAsoft (Chair)
* Tim Bowden , Mapforge
* Shoaib Burq , Geoscience Australia
* Bruce Bannerman , Bureau of Meteorology
* Ben Searle , Office of Spatial Data Management
* Simon Hope , ESRI Australia
* Harley Prowse , Geographic Business Solutions Ltd , Auckland, New Zealand.
* Jody Garnett , LISAsoft
* Mark Leslie , LISAsoft
* Volker Mische
* Jeff McKenna , OSGeo conference committee Chair
* Paul Ramsey , OSGeo Board Representative
* Tyler Mitchell , OSGeo Executive Director

Conference Chairs

* Geoff Zeiss
* Venkatesh Raghavan
* Anne Fitzgerald
* Satish Sankaran
* Raj Singh

Each committee member is responsible for making their final selection (from the full 183) of presentations into the general presentation track, which includes selecting 85 presentations. Supplementary to the 85 presentations in the general track the committee is invited to select 10 presentations which will form a reserve list, should a selected presenter pull out. The reserve list will also be used if a presentation is selected for the academic track (ie one from the reserve list will take its place). The following guidance is made to the committee:

Presentation selection should consider the overall conference theme of 'user driven'. The local organising committee are seeking a good balance of content (ie technology, business and case studies) and a representation of regional content is important. Selection should avoid duplicate content and we are seeking to give as many individuals the chance to present as possible therefore duplication of presenters should be minimised.

Conference Chairs get one guaranteed presentation for their session. To tell us which one you want to be guaranteed, highlight it in your column in the spreadsheet.

Final presentation selection is to be made by the committee by the 14th July. Final adjustments taking into account the academic presentations will be made around 18-19 July with authors being notified by the 20th July. All notifications should include an invite to provide a poster for the poster boards and\or submit a request to take part in the demonstration theatre.

==Sessions==

Sessions are groups of two or three presentations. Each presentation is 30 minutes inclusive of change over, set up, content and questions.

= Timeline =
The following dates are relevant to general presentations only. Academic presentation dates can be found here[[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Call4papers]]

July
*Monday 6th - presentation data extracted from Django by Volker
*Tuesday 7th - Spreadsheet on Google + guidance email ready
*Monday 13th - press release ready for translation
*Tuesday 14th - Commitee vote closed + theirry rejections
*18-19th - Academic Track presentations removed from General Track if selected
*Monday 20th - Notify authors + press release out.

= Logistics =

==Presentation Preparation Room==

Parkside G07 [http://www.scec.com.au/rooms/fact_sheet.cfm?ObjectID=145] is reserved as the presentation preparation room. This room will be available to presenters prior to their presentation. The following facilities will be provided:

==Presentation upload facilities==

==Presentation Laptop and room facilities==
Each presentation room will be set up to include the following:

= Guidelines for presenters =
Presenters may provide their own laptop, if you are please ensure you are in the room ahead of your allotted time to ensure an efficient change over.

= Guidelines for session coordinators =

= Content Streaming =

== Academic Track ==

FOSS4G 2009 will be running a seperate academic track, more details can be found here [[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Call4papers]]

[[Category:FOSS4G2009]]

FOSS4G 2009 Program

2009-07-05T08:00:00Z

Wiki-Harleyp: /* Timeline */

Back to [[FOSS4G 2009]]...

= General =

The overall conference programme can be found at: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pm1bvJQodiW3WBYGU7MM0Og

=Presentations=

==Voting==

Presentations make up a large part of the conference program. During the period of 15th June to 28th June 2009 all submitted presentations from both the general and academic track will be open to public voting.

Reviewer are asked to consider the conference theme of "User Driven" when rating presentations. We want to make sure we have presentations for both GIS developers and systems integrators, and Geospatial Open Source Business Case Studies useful for potential purchases of FOSS4G software systems.

The steps below need to be followed to vote on presentations:

1. Go to the main conference website and follow the links to vote on presentations. This will direct you to the presentations system. You need to register to vote on presentations. Registration is simple. If you have already registered to submit a presentation then you do not need to register again, please use your existing credentials.

[[Image:Foss4gPVote1.png]]

2. Once logged in you'll be prompted to vote for your favourite abstracts. Click on the link

[[Image:Foss4gPVote2.png]]

3. All the presentations are displayed. Each presentation appears together with the title, author and abstract. Below are tags which can be selected to display presentations with a common theme. You can vote on the presentation by selecting the 'no', 'slight' or 'huge' options, your vote is cast as soon as you select one of the options. However you can change your mind later if you wish

[[Image:Foss4gPVote3.png]]

4. If you wish to amend your choice then you can click on your original selection to change it. You don't have to vote on all presentations in one session, the system will remember your selections. Happy voting

[[Image:Foss4gPVote4.png]]

----

==Ranking==

After public voting has closed each presentation was given a score based upon the following criteria:

0 = no interest
1 = slight interest
2 = huge interest

The collated scores were then provided to the presentation committee made up of the following:

Organising Committee (Local & OSGeo)

* Cameron Shorter , LISAsoft (Chair)
* Tim Bowden , Mapforge
* Shoaib Burq , Geoscience Australia
* Bruce Bannerman , Bureau of Meteorology
* Ben Searle , Office of Spatial Data Management
* Simon Hope , ESRI Australia
* Harley Prowse , Geographic Business Solutions Ltd , Auckland, New Zealand.
* Jody Garnett , LISAsoft
* Mark Leslie , LISAsoft
* Volker Mische
* Jeff McKenna , OSGeo conference committee Chair
* Paul Ramsey , OSGeo Board Representative
* Tyler Mitchell , OSGeo Executive Director

Conference Chairs

* Geoff Zeiss
* Venkatesh Raghavan
* Anne Fitzgerald
* Satish Sankaran
* Raj Singh

Each committee member is responsible for making their final selection (from the full 183) of presentations into the general presentation track, which includes selecting 85 presentations. Supplementary to the 85 presentations in the general track the committee is invited to select 10 presentations which will form a reserve list, should a selected presenter pull out. The reserve list will also be used if a presentation is selected for the academic track (ie one from the reserve list will take its place). The following guidance is made to the committee:

Presentation selection should consider the overall conference theme of 'user driven'. The local organising committee are seeking a good balance of content (ie technology, business and case studies) and a representation of regional content is important. Selection should avoid duplicate content and we are seeking to give as many individuals the chance to present as possible therefore duplication of presenters should be minimised.

Final presentation selection is to be made by the committee by the 14th July. Final adjustments taking into account the academic presentations will be made around 18-19 July with authors being notified by the 20th July. All notifications should include an invite to provide a poster for the poster boards and\or submit a request to take part in the demonstration theatre.

==Sessions==

Sessions are groups of two or three presentations. Each presentation is 30 minutes inclusive of change over, set up, content and questions.

= Timeline =
The following dates are relevant to general presentations only. Academic presentation dates can be found here[[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Call4papers]]

July
*Monday 6th - presentation data extracted from Django by Volker
*Tuesday 7th - Spreadsheet on Google + guidance email ready
*Monday 13th - press release ready for translation
*Tuesday 14th - Commitee vote closed + theirry rejections
*18-19th - Academic Track presentations removed from General Track if selected
*Monday 20th - Notify authors + press release out.

= Logistics =

==Presentation Preparation Room==

Parkside G07 [http://www.scec.com.au/rooms/fact_sheet.cfm?ObjectID=145] is reserved as the presentation preparation room. This room will be available to presenters prior to their presentation. The following facilities will be provided:

==Presentation upload facilities==

==Presentation Laptop and room facilities==
Each presentation room will be set up to include the following:

= Guidelines for presenters =
Presenters may provide their own laptop, if you are please ensure you are in the room ahead of your allotted time to ensure an efficient change over.

= Guidelines for session coordinators =

= Content Streaming =

== Academic Track ==

FOSS4G 2009 will be running a seperate academic track, more details can be found here [[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Call4papers]]

[[Category:FOSS4G2009]]

FOSS4G 2009 Program

2009-07-05T07:56:45Z

Wiki-Harleyp: /* Timeline */

Back to [[FOSS4G 2009]]...

= General =

The overall conference programme can be found at: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pm1bvJQodiW3WBYGU7MM0Og

=Presentations=

==Voting==

Presentations make up a large part of the conference program. During the period of 15th June to 28th June 2009 all submitted presentations from both the general and academic track will be open to public voting.

Reviewer are asked to consider the conference theme of "User Driven" when rating presentations. We want to make sure we have presentations for both GIS developers and systems integrators, and Geospatial Open Source Business Case Studies useful for potential purchases of FOSS4G software systems.

The steps below need to be followed to vote on presentations:

1. Go to the main conference website and follow the links to vote on presentations. This will direct you to the presentations system. You need to register to vote on presentations. Registration is simple. If you have already registered to submit a presentation then you do not need to register again, please use your existing credentials.

[[Image:Foss4gPVote1.png]]

2. Once logged in you'll be prompted to vote for your favourite abstracts. Click on the link

[[Image:Foss4gPVote2.png]]

3. All the presentations are displayed. Each presentation appears together with the title, author and abstract. Below are tags which can be selected to display presentations with a common theme. You can vote on the presentation by selecting the 'no', 'slight' or 'huge' options, your vote is cast as soon as you select one of the options. However you can change your mind later if you wish

[[Image:Foss4gPVote3.png]]

4. If you wish to amend your choice then you can click on your original selection to change it. You don't have to vote on all presentations in one session, the system will remember your selections. Happy voting

[[Image:Foss4gPVote4.png]]

----

==Ranking==

After public voting has closed each presentation was given a score based upon the following criteria:

0 = no interest
1 = slight interest
2 = huge interest

The collated scores were then provided to the presentation committee made up of the following:

Organising Committee (Local & OSGeo)

* Cameron Shorter , LISAsoft (Chair)
* Tim Bowden , Mapforge
* Shoaib Burq , Geoscience Australia
* Bruce Bannerman , Bureau of Meteorology
* Ben Searle , Office of Spatial Data Management
* Simon Hope , ESRI Australia
* Harley Prowse , Geographic Business Solutions Ltd , Auckland, New Zealand.
* Jody Garnett , LISAsoft
* Mark Leslie , LISAsoft
* Volker Mische
* Jeff McKenna , OSGeo conference committee Chair
* Paul Ramsey , OSGeo Board Representative
* Tyler Mitchell , OSGeo Executive Director

Conference Chairs

* Geoff Zeiss
* Venkatesh Raghavan
* Anne Fitzgerald
* Satish Sankaran
* Raj Singh

Each committee member is responsible for making their final selection (from the full 183) of presentations into the general presentation track, which includes selecting 85 presentations. Supplementary to the 85 presentations in the general track the committee is invited to select 10 presentations which will form a reserve list, should a selected presenter pull out. The reserve list will also be used if a presentation is selected for the academic track (ie one from the reserve list will take its place). The following guidance is made to the committee:

Presentation selection should consider the overall conference theme of 'user driven'. The local organising committee are seeking a good balance of content (ie technology, business and case studies) and a representation of regional content is important. Selection should avoid duplicate content and we are seeking to give as many individuals the chance to present as possible therefore duplication of presenters should be minimised.

Final presentation selection is to be made by the committee by the 14th July. Final adjustments taking into account the academic presentations will be made around 18-19 July with authors being notified by the 20th July. All notifications should include an invite to provide a poster for the poster boards and\or submit a request to take part in the demonstration theatre.

==Sessions==

Sessions are groups of two or three presentations. Each presentation is 30 minutes inclusive of change over, set up, content and questions.

= Timeline =
The following dates are relevant to general presentations only. Academic presentation dates can be found here[[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Call4papers]]

July
*Monday 6th - data from Volke
*Tuesday 7th - Spreadsheet on Google + guidance email ready
*Monday 13th - press release ready for translation
*Tuesday 14th - Commitee vote closed + theirry rejections
*18-19th - Academic Track presentations removed from General Track if selected
*Monday 20th - Notify authors + press release out.

= Logistics =

==Presentation Preparation Room==

Parkside G07 [http://www.scec.com.au/rooms/fact_sheet.cfm?ObjectID=145] is reserved as the presentation preparation room. This room will be available to presenters prior to their presentation. The following facilities will be provided:

==Presentation upload facilities==

==Presentation Laptop and room facilities==
Each presentation room will be set up to include the following:

= Guidelines for presenters =
Presenters may provide their own laptop, if you are please ensure you are in the room ahead of your allotted time to ensure an efficient change over.

= Guidelines for session coordinators =

= Content Streaming =

== Academic Track ==

FOSS4G 2009 will be running a seperate academic track, more details can be found here [[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Call4papers]]

[[Category:FOSS4G2009]]

FOSS4G 2009 Program

2009-07-05T07:55:58Z

Wiki-Harleyp: /* Timeline */

Back to [[FOSS4G 2009]]...

= General =

The overall conference programme can be found at: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pm1bvJQodiW3WBYGU7MM0Og

=Presentations=

==Voting==

Presentations make up a large part of the conference program. During the period of 15th June to 28th June 2009 all submitted presentations from both the general and academic track will be open to public voting.

Reviewer are asked to consider the conference theme of "User Driven" when rating presentations. We want to make sure we have presentations for both GIS developers and systems integrators, and Geospatial Open Source Business Case Studies useful for potential purchases of FOSS4G software systems.

The steps below need to be followed to vote on presentations:

1. Go to the main conference website and follow the links to vote on presentations. This will direct you to the presentations system. You need to register to vote on presentations. Registration is simple. If you have already registered to submit a presentation then you do not need to register again, please use your existing credentials.

[[Image:Foss4gPVote1.png]]

2. Once logged in you'll be prompted to vote for your favourite abstracts. Click on the link

[[Image:Foss4gPVote2.png]]

3. All the presentations are displayed. Each presentation appears together with the title, author and abstract. Below are tags which can be selected to display presentations with a common theme. You can vote on the presentation by selecting the 'no', 'slight' or 'huge' options, your vote is cast as soon as you select one of the options. However you can change your mind later if you wish

[[Image:Foss4gPVote3.png]]

4. If you wish to amend your choice then you can click on your original selection to change it. You don't have to vote on all presentations in one session, the system will remember your selections. Happy voting

[[Image:Foss4gPVote4.png]]

----

==Ranking==

After public voting has closed each presentation was given a score based upon the following criteria:

0 = no interest
1 = slight interest
2 = huge interest

The collated scores were then provided to the presentation committee made up of the following:

Organising Committee (Local & OSGeo)

* Cameron Shorter , LISAsoft (Chair)
* Tim Bowden , Mapforge
* Shoaib Burq , Geoscience Australia
* Bruce Bannerman , Bureau of Meteorology
* Ben Searle , Office of Spatial Data Management
* Simon Hope , ESRI Australia
* Harley Prowse , Geographic Business Solutions Ltd , Auckland, New Zealand.
* Jody Garnett , LISAsoft
* Mark Leslie , LISAsoft
* Volker Mische
* Jeff McKenna , OSGeo conference committee Chair
* Paul Ramsey , OSGeo Board Representative
* Tyler Mitchell , OSGeo Executive Director

Conference Chairs

* Geoff Zeiss
* Venkatesh Raghavan
* Anne Fitzgerald
* Satish Sankaran
* Raj Singh

Each committee member is responsible for making their final selection (from the full 183) of presentations into the general presentation track, which includes selecting 85 presentations. Supplementary to the 85 presentations in the general track the committee is invited to select 10 presentations which will form a reserve list, should a selected presenter pull out. The reserve list will also be used if a presentation is selected for the academic track (ie one from the reserve list will take its place). The following guidance is made to the committee:

Presentation selection should consider the overall conference theme of 'user driven'. The local organising committee are seeking a good balance of content (ie technology, business and case studies) and a representation of regional content is important. Selection should avoid duplicate content and we are seeking to give as many individuals the chance to present as possible therefore duplication of presenters should be minimised.

Final presentation selection is to be made by the committee by the 14th July. Final adjustments taking into account the academic presentations will be made around 18-19 July with authors being notified by the 20th July. All notifications should include an invite to provide a poster for the poster boards and\or submit a request to take part in the demonstration theatre.

==Sessions==

Sessions are groups of two or three presentations. Each presentation is 30 minutes inclusive of change over, set up, content and questions.

= Timeline =
The following dates are relevant to general presentations only. Academic presentation dates can be found here[[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Call4papers]]

July
*Monday 6th data from Volke
*Tuesday 7th Spreadsheet on Google + guidance email ready
*Monday 13th press release ready for translation
*Tuesday 14th Commitee vote closed + theirry rejections
*18-19th Academic Track presentations removed from General Track if selected
*Monday 20th Notify authors + press release out.

= Logistics =

==Presentation Preparation Room==

Parkside G07 [http://www.scec.com.au/rooms/fact_sheet.cfm?ObjectID=145] is reserved as the presentation preparation room. This room will be available to presenters prior to their presentation. The following facilities will be provided:

==Presentation upload facilities==

==Presentation Laptop and room facilities==
Each presentation room will be set up to include the following:

= Guidelines for presenters =
Presenters may provide their own laptop, if you are please ensure you are in the room ahead of your allotted time to ensure an efficient change over.

= Guidelines for session coordinators =

= Content Streaming =

== Academic Track ==

FOSS4G 2009 will be running a seperate academic track, more details can be found here [[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Call4papers]]

[[Category:FOSS4G2009]]

FOSS4G 2009 Program

2009-07-05T07:50:41Z

Wiki-Harleyp: /* Ranking */

Back to [[FOSS4G 2009]]...

= General =

The overall conference programme can be found at: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pm1bvJQodiW3WBYGU7MM0Og

=Presentations=

==Voting==

Presentations make up a large part of the conference program. During the period of 15th June to 28th June 2009 all submitted presentations from both the general and academic track will be open to public voting.

Reviewer are asked to consider the conference theme of "User Driven" when rating presentations. We want to make sure we have presentations for both GIS developers and systems integrators, and Geospatial Open Source Business Case Studies useful for potential purchases of FOSS4G software systems.

The steps below need to be followed to vote on presentations:

1. Go to the main conference website and follow the links to vote on presentations. This will direct you to the presentations system. You need to register to vote on presentations. Registration is simple. If you have already registered to submit a presentation then you do not need to register again, please use your existing credentials.

[[Image:Foss4gPVote1.png]]

2. Once logged in you'll be prompted to vote for your favourite abstracts. Click on the link

[[Image:Foss4gPVote2.png]]

3. All the presentations are displayed. Each presentation appears together with the title, author and abstract. Below are tags which can be selected to display presentations with a common theme. You can vote on the presentation by selecting the 'no', 'slight' or 'huge' options, your vote is cast as soon as you select one of the options. However you can change your mind later if you wish

[[Image:Foss4gPVote3.png]]

4. If you wish to amend your choice then you can click on your original selection to change it. You don't have to vote on all presentations in one session, the system will remember your selections. Happy voting

[[Image:Foss4gPVote4.png]]

----

==Ranking==

After public voting has closed each presentation was given a score based upon the following criteria:

0 = no interest
1 = slight interest
2 = huge interest

The collated scores were then provided to the presentation committee made up of the following:

Organising Committee (Local & OSGeo)

* Cameron Shorter , LISAsoft (Chair)
* Tim Bowden , Mapforge
* Shoaib Burq , Geoscience Australia
* Bruce Bannerman , Bureau of Meteorology
* Ben Searle , Office of Spatial Data Management
* Simon Hope , ESRI Australia
* Harley Prowse , Geographic Business Solutions Ltd , Auckland, New Zealand.
* Jody Garnett , LISAsoft
* Mark Leslie , LISAsoft
* Volker Mische
* Jeff McKenna , OSGeo conference committee Chair
* Paul Ramsey , OSGeo Board Representative
* Tyler Mitchell , OSGeo Executive Director

Conference Chairs

* Geoff Zeiss
* Venkatesh Raghavan
* Anne Fitzgerald
* Satish Sankaran
* Raj Singh

Each committee member is responsible for making their final selection (from the full 183) of presentations into the general presentation track, which includes selecting 85 presentations. Supplementary to the 85 presentations in the general track the committee is invited to select 10 presentations which will form a reserve list, should a selected presenter pull out. The reserve list will also be used if a presentation is selected for the academic track (ie one from the reserve list will take its place). The following guidance is made to the committee:

Presentation selection should consider the overall conference theme of 'user driven'. The local organising committee are seeking a good balance of content (ie technology, business and case studies) and a representation of regional content is important. Selection should avoid duplicate content and we are seeking to give as many individuals the chance to present as possible therefore duplication of presenters should be minimised.

Final presentation selection is to be made by the committee by the 14th July. Final adjustments taking into account the academic presentations will be made around 18-19 July with authors being notified by the 20th July. All notifications should include an invite to provide a poster for the poster boards and\or submit a request to take part in the demonstration theatre.

==Sessions==

Sessions are groups of two or three presentations. Each presentation is 30 minutes inclusive of change over, set up, content and questions.

= Timeline =
The following dates are relevant to general presentations only. Academic presentation dates can be found here[[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Call4papers]]

*June 8 abstract deadline
*June 14 - 28 public voting open
*July 20 presentation acceptance notification

= Logistics =

==Presentation Preparation Room==

Parkside G07 [http://www.scec.com.au/rooms/fact_sheet.cfm?ObjectID=145] is reserved as the presentation preparation room. This room will be available to presenters prior to their presentation. The following facilities will be provided:

==Presentation upload facilities==

==Presentation Laptop and room facilities==
Each presentation room will be set up to include the following:

= Guidelines for presenters =
Presenters may provide their own laptop, if you are please ensure you are in the room ahead of your allotted time to ensure an efficient change over.

= Guidelines for session coordinators =

= Content Streaming =

== Academic Track ==

FOSS4G 2009 will be running a seperate academic track, more details can be found here [[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Call4papers]]

[[Category:FOSS4G2009]]

FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 18

2009-06-22T23:44:51Z

Wiki-Harleyp: /* FOSS4G Abstract voting explained */

DRAFT

=FOSS4G Abstract voting explained=

Sydney, Australia. 24 June 2009.

A number of people from the OSGeo community have questioned whether the FOSS4G abstract selection could be unfairly biased or rigged through the community voting process. In particular, there were concerns with our last "tongue in cheek" communication suggesting authors [[FOSS4G_2009_Press_Release_17|encourage their friends to vote for their presentations]]. In retrospect, the message should have focused on inviting people to review all presentations and promoting FOSS4G.

However, to ally concerns about bias, we feel it is important to be transparent about the abstract selection process (for the general track), which will be as follows:

# Call for abstracts, including promotion in a number of areas.
# Abstract submission deadline.
# Chase abstracts from a few presenters who had indicated they wanted to present but forgot to submit an abstract.
# Ask the community to rank abstracts.
# Abstract selection committee to review community rankings. Some minor adjustments may be made to:
## Ensure there a suitable selection of presentations for each of the specific FOSS4G user groups: Techies, Government & Private CIOs, Academic, Regional delegates. It is expected that most voters will fall into the techie user group, while half the delegates will likely fit into the Regional and/or CIO group.
## Any obvious rigging should be avoided.
## Endeavor to avoid having duplicates of the same presentation, and possibly encourage presenters with similar topics to combine their presentations or change the slant of their presentation. We want to encourage a depth of presentations.
## Focus on the conference theme of "User Driven".

Information on how the academic papers will be assessed and selected can be found here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Call4papers

== Upcoming FOSS4G milestones ==

* 15-28 June 2009, Abstract Voting is Open
* 31 Jul 2009, Early registration deadline
* 14 Sep 2009, Completed program available
* 20 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Workshop
* 21-23 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Presentations and Tutorials
* 24 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Code Sprint

== Media Sponsors ==
* Position Magazine: http://www.positionmag.com.au/
* Asian Surveying and Mapping Newsletter: http://www.asmmag.com
* Geoconnexions Magazine: http://www.geoconnexion.com/
* Directions Magazine: http://directionsmag.com/
* GIS Development: http://gisdevelopment.net/
* Baliz Media: http://www.BALIZ-MEDIA.com/

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For more information or to keep informed from the FOSS4G Organising Committee, join our announcement list or twitter feed at: http://2009.foss4g.org/contacts/

or contact:

Cameron Shorter, Chair of the FOSS4G Organising Committee and Geospatial Systems Architect at LISAsoft

tel +61-2-8570-5050

c a m e r o n . s h o r t e r @ l i s a s o f t . c o m

[[Category:FOSS4G2009]]
[[Category:FOSS4G]]

FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 16

2009-06-13T05:04:57Z

Wiki-Harleyp: /* Abstract Voting Open */

= Abstract Voting Open =

-- DRAFT --

Sydney, Australia. 15 June 2009.

You can now vote on the papers you'd like to see at the conference! We have had over 170 abstract submissions. Have your say on what you would like to see at the conference. You can read the abstracts and cast your votes for your preffered papers. Voting is open now and will close on Sunday 28th June.

For instructions on how to vote, please refer to the voting page on the Conference website here...

Successful authors will be notified on the 20th of July. We hope to have a preliminary program in place by August.

== Upcoming FOSS4G milestones ==

* 15-28 June 2009, Abstract Voting is Open
* 31 Jul 2009, Early registration deadline
* 14 Sep 2009, Completed program available
* 20 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Workshop
* 21-23 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Presentations and Tutorials
* 24 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Code Sprint

== Media Sponsors ==
* Position Magazine: http://www.positionmag.com.au/
* Asian Surveying and Mapping Newsletter: http://www.asmmag.com
* Geoconnexions Magazine: http://www.geoconnexion.com/
* Directions Magazine: http://directionsmag.com/
* GIS Development: http://gisdevelopment.net/
* Baliz Media: http://www.BALIZ-MEDIA.com/

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or contact:

Cameron Shorter, Chair of the FOSS4G Organising Committee and Geospatial Systems Architect at LISAsoft

tel +61-2-8570-5050

c a m e r o n . s h o r t e r @ l i s a s o f t . c o m

[[Category:FOSS4G2009]]
[[Category:FOSS4G]]

FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 16

2009-06-13T04:54:33Z

Wiki-Harleyp: /* Abstract Voting Open */

FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 16

2009-06-13T04:52:12Z

Wiki-Harleyp: /* Abstract Voting Open */

= Abstract Voting Open =

Sydney, Australia. 15 June 2009.

You can now vote on the papers you'd like to see at the conference! We have had over 170 abstract submissions. Have your say on what you would like to see at the conference. You can read the abstracts and cast your votes for your preffered papers. Voting is open now and will close on Sunday 28th June.

For instructions on how to vote, please refer to the voting page on the Conference website here...

Successful authors will be notified on the 20th of July. We hope to have a preliminary program in place by August.

== Media Sponsors ==
* Position Magazine: http://www.positionmag.com.au
* Geoconnexions Magazine: http://www.geoconnexion.com/

----

For information about this announcement, contact:

FOSS4G Organising Committee: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009#Contact_Us

or,

Cameron Shorter, Chair of the FOSS4G Organising Committee and Geospatial Systems Architect at LISAsoft

tel +61-8570-5050

c a m e r o n . s h o r t e r @ l i s a s o f t . c o m

[[Category:FOSS4G2009]]
[[Category:FOSS4G]]

FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 16

2009-06-13T04:49:57Z

Wiki-Harleyp: New page: = Abstract Voting Open = Sydney, Australia. 15 June 2009. You can now vote on the papers you'd like to see at the conference! We have had over 170 abstract submissions. Have your say o...

FOSS4G 2009 Press Releases

2009-06-13T04:41:23Z

Wiki-Harleyp:

Announcements are sent out on: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/foss4g2009-announce

* 18 Feb 2008, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 1]] Sydney selected to host FOSS4G in 2009.
* 5 May 2008, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 2]] Tour Hosts selected to manage the FOSS4G conference in Sydney 2009
* 20 Jan 2008, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 3]] Climate Change Integration Plugfest announcement
* 28 Jan 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 4]] Sponsorship and Exhibition Prospectus released, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 4 Cover|Cover Email]]
* 2 Feb 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 5]] Call for workshops and tutorials
* 2 Mar 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 6]] One week extension to call for workshops and tutorials
* 9 Mar 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 7]] Call for Abstracts, [[FOSS4G_2009_Press_Release_7_Translations|Translations]],
* 30 Mar 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 8]] Workshops and Tutorials announced
* 2 Apr 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 10]] Link to FOSS4G from your website
* 7 Apr 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 9]] Get your logo on the FOSS4G website before people visit to register
* 29 Apr 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 12]] FOSS4G Sponsor logos available
* 4 May 2009,[[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 11]] Registration for conference opens, [[FOSS4G_2009_Press_Release_11_Translations|Translations]], [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 11 Cover|Cover Email]]
* 16 May 2009,[[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 13]] Subscribing people to the announcement email list
* 25 May 2009,[[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 14]] Reminder - 2 weeks to submit abstracts + academic track
* 27 May 2009, [[OGC Press Release 1021]] OGC Webinar for OWS6 testbed + plug for CCIP, [[OGC Press Release 1021 Translations|Translations]], [[OGC Press Release 1021 Cover|Cover Email]]
* 8 June 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 15]] Professional Development Points for SSSI members attending FOSS4G
* 11 June 2009, [http://www.opengeospatial.org/pressroom/pressreleases/1046|OGC Call for Sponsors: Climate Challenge Integration Plugfest at FOSS4G]
* 15 June 2009, [[FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 16]] - Abstract Voting Open and Instructions

== Upcoming milestones ==
For the complete milestone schedules, refer to: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Schedule

(milestones requiring press releases are in bold)

* 2 Feb 2009, '''Call for Workshops/Tutorials opens'''
* 2 Mar 2009, Call for Workshops/Tutorials closes
* 9 Mar 2009, '''Call for Abstracts opens'''
* 30 Mar 2009, Notification of acceptance for workshops/tutorials
* 4 Apr 2009, '''Registration for conference and tutorials opens'''
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* 8 Jun 2009, Abstract submission deadline
* 20 Jul 2009, Presenters notified of acceptance for talks. Ask presenters to email/blog/.. "Come see me at FOSS4G"
* 31 Jul 2009, '''Author/Early registration deadline'''
* 14 Sep 2009, '''Completed program available on the wiki'''
* 20 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Workshop
* 21-23 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Presentations and Tutorials
* 24-25 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Code Sprint

FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 15

2009-06-13T03:23:43Z

Wiki-Harleyp: /* Upcoming FOSS4G milestones */

''For distribution to SSSI members, through SSSI email list.''

= Professional Development Points & Discount for SSSI members attending FOSS4G conference =

-- DRAFT --

Sydney, Australia. 8 June 2009.

http://2009.foss4g.org

The international conference for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) which is coming to Sydney 20-23 October 2009, is now offering Professional Development Points and a 5% discount to Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute (SSSI) members.

FOSS4G attracts 500-700 international delegates and offers business and technical presentations from the best international practitioners of Geospatial Open Standards and Open Source. The Open Geospatial Consotium (OGC) is underpinning the conference with a Standards Based integration showcase based on a climate change scenario, demonstrating integration between Open Source and proprietary applications.

This is a rare opportunity for us Australians to have such a high caliber community come to us.

http://2009.foss4g.org

Early bird registration with an SSSI discount is just $AU690 for 3 days of conference and tutorials, and $AU375 for a day of workshops.

SSSI members will received ??? Professional Development Points for attending the main conference, and an extra ??? points to attend the workshop.

SSSI special membership discount is available by registering at: https://ei.eventinfotech.com.au/ei/rs.esp?id=739&scriptid=LOGINDR.
Use your same Name and Organisation as registered with SSSI, and use Member Number: SSSI2009.

If you are an SSSI member and have already registered please contact the Conference Managers
(foss4g2009@tourhosts.com.au) to arrange your 5% discount.

You can also have your say about which presentations will be selected by participating in the public voting on the 170+ abstracts that have been submitted. Voting is open from Monday 15th June until Sunday 18th June. Information on how to vote is available on the conference website.

== Upcoming FOSS4G milestones ==

* 15-28 June 2009, Abstract Voting is Open
* 31 Jul 2009, Early registration deadline
* 14 Sep 2009, Completed program available
* 20 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Workshop
* 21-23 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Presentations and Tutorials
* 24 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Code Sprint

== Media Sponsors ==
* Position Magazine: http://www.positionmag.com.au/
* Asian Surveying and Mapping Newsletter: http://www.asmmag.com
* Geoconnexions Magazine: http://www.geoconnexion.com/
* Directions Magazine: http://directionsmag.com/
* GIS Development: http://gisdevelopment.net/
* Baliz Media: http://www.BALIZ-MEDIA.com/

----
For more information or to keep informed from the FOSS4G Organising Committee, join our announcement list or twitter feed at: http://2009.foss4g.org/contacts/

or contact:

Cameron Shorter, Chair of the FOSS4G Organising Committee and Geospatial Systems Architect at LISAsoft

tel +61-2-8570-5050

c a m e r o n . s h o r t e r @ l i s a s o f t . c o m

[[Category:FOSS4G2009]]
[[Category:FOSS4G]]

FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 15

2009-06-13T03:22:28Z

Wiki-Harleyp: /* Professional Development Points & Discount for SSSI members attending FOSS4G conference */

''For distribution to SSSI members, through SSSI email list.''

= Professional Development Points & Discount for SSSI members attending FOSS4G conference =

-- DRAFT --

Sydney, Australia. 8 June 2009.

http://2009.foss4g.org

The international conference for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) which is coming to Sydney 20-23 October 2009, is now offering Professional Development Points and a 5% discount to Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute (SSSI) members.

FOSS4G attracts 500-700 international delegates and offers business and technical presentations from the best international practitioners of Geospatial Open Standards and Open Source. The Open Geospatial Consotium (OGC) is underpinning the conference with a Standards Based integration showcase based on a climate change scenario, demonstrating integration between Open Source and proprietary applications.

This is a rare opportunity for us Australians to have such a high caliber community come to us.

http://2009.foss4g.org

Early bird registration with an SSSI discount is just $AU690 for 3 days of conference and tutorials, and $AU375 for a day of workshops.

SSSI members will received ??? Professional Development Points for attending the main conference, and an extra ??? points to attend the workshop.

SSSI special membership discount is available by registering at: https://ei.eventinfotech.com.au/ei/rs.esp?id=739&scriptid=LOGINDR.
Use your same Name and Organisation as registered with SSSI, and use Member Number: SSSI2009.

If you are an SSSI member and have already registered please contact the Conference Managers
(foss4g2009@tourhosts.com.au) to arrange your 5% discount.

You can also have your say about which presentations will be selected by participating in the public voting on the 170+ abstracts that have been submitted. Voting is open from Monday 15th June until Sunday 18th June. Information on how to vote is available on the conference website.

== Upcoming FOSS4G milestones ==

* 31 Jul 2009, Early registration deadline
* 14 Sep 2009, Completed program available
* 20 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Workshop
* 21-23 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Presentations and Tutorials
* 24 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Code Sprint

== Media Sponsors ==
* Position Magazine: http://www.positionmag.com.au/
* Asian Surveying and Mapping Newsletter: http://www.asmmag.com
* Geoconnexions Magazine: http://www.geoconnexion.com/
* Directions Magazine: http://directionsmag.com/
* GIS Development: http://gisdevelopment.net/
* Baliz Media: http://www.BALIZ-MEDIA.com/

----
For more information or to keep informed from the FOSS4G Organising Committee, join our announcement list or twitter feed at: http://2009.foss4g.org/contacts/

or contact:

Cameron Shorter, Chair of the FOSS4G Organising Committee and Geospatial Systems Architect at LISAsoft

tel +61-2-8570-5050

c a m e r o n . s h o r t e r @ l i s a s o f t . c o m

[[Category:FOSS4G2009]]
[[Category:FOSS4G]]

FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 14

2009-05-20T04:05:38Z

Wiki-Harleyp: /* FOSS4G 2009 Call for Abstracts Reminder */

= FOSS4G 2009 Call for Abstracts Reminder=

Sydney, Australia. 25 May 2009.

One week left for presentation abstract submissions!

The Organising Committee would like to remind all interested presenters to submit their abstracts for the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial conference (FOSS4G), being held in Sydney, Australia October 20-23. Abstract submission closes on June 1st 2009.

So, get those abstracts in and secure your presentation slot at the conference. Presentations are open to all those interested and will comprise a 30 minute slot which includes hand-over, introductions and 5 minutes for questions. Presentations will be selected which have a strong "Open Geospatial" theme to them. We are keen to hear about your experiences, both technical and non technical. While the technology is a key part of the conference, in 2009 we are very keen to have a good selection of case studies and business case type presentations. How did you build the business case for FOSS4G and how has the technology made a diefference to your business or organisation?

Something about the workshops as well as per TH suggestion at OC meeting today?

For more information, visit the FOSS4G site at http://2009.foss4g.org/presentations/

The deadline for presentation submissions is June 1st 2009. See you in Sydney.

----

For information about this announcement, contact:

FOSS4G Organising Committee: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009#Contact_Us

or,

Cameron Shorter, Chair of the FOSS4G Organising Committee and Geospatial Systems Architect at LISAsoft

tel +61-8570-5050

c a m e r o n . s h o r t e r @ l i s a s o f t . c o m

[[Category:FOSS4G2009]]
[[Category:FOSS4G]]

FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 14

2009-05-19T21:39:58Z

Wiki-Harleyp: /* FOSS4G 2009 Call for Abstracts */

= FOSS4G 2009 Call for Abstracts Reminder=

Sydney, Australia. 25 May 2009.

One week left for presentation abstract submissions!

The Organising Committee would like to remind all interested presenters to submit their abstracts for the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial conference (FOSS4G), being held in Sydney, Australia October 20-23. Abstract submission closes on June 1st 2009.

So, get those abstracts in and secure your presentation slot at the conference. Presentations are open to all those interested and will comprise a 30 minute slot which includes hand-over, introductions and 5 minutes for questions. Presentations will be selected which have a strong "Open Geospatial" theme to them. We are keen to hear about your experiences, both technical and non technical. While the technology is a key part of the conference, in 2009 we are very keen to have a good selection of case studies and business case type presentations. How did you build the business case for FOSS4G and how has the technology made a diefference to your business or organisation?

For more information, visit the FOSS4G site at http://2009.foss4g.org/presentations/

The deadline for presentation submissions is June 1st 2009. See you in Sydney.

----

For information about this announcement, contact:

FOSS4G Organising Committee: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009#Contact_Us

or,

Cameron Shorter, Chair of the FOSS4G Organising Committee and Geospatial Systems Architect at LISAsoft

tel +61-8570-5050

c a m e r o n . s h o r t e r @ l i s a s o f t . c o m

[[Category:FOSS4G2009]]
[[Category:FOSS4G]]

FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 14

2009-05-19T21:39:25Z

Wiki-Harleyp: /* FOSS4G 2009 Call for Abstracts */

= FOSS4G 2009 Call for Abstracts =

Sydney, Australia. 25 May 2009.

One week left for presentation abstract submissions!

The Organising Committee would like to remind all interested presenters to submit their abstracts for the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial conference (FOSS4G), being held in Sydney, Australia October 20-23. Abstract submission closes on June 1st 2009.

So, get those abstracts in and secure your presentation slot at the conference. Presentations are open to all those interested and will comprise a 30 minute slot which includes hand-over, introductions and 5 minutes for questions. Presentations will be selected which have a strong "Open Geospatial" theme to them. We are keen to hear about your experiences, both technical and non technical. While the technology is a key part of the conference, in 2009 we are very keen to have a good selection of case studies and business case type presentations. How did you build the business case for FOSS4G and how has the technology made a diefference to your business or organisation?

For more information, visit the FOSS4G site at http://2009.foss4g.org/presentations/

The deadline for presentation submissions is June 1st 2009. See you in Sydney.

----

For information about this announcement, contact:

FOSS4G Organising Committee: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009#Contact_Us

or,

Cameron Shorter, Chair of the FOSS4G Organising Committee and Geospatial Systems Architect at LISAsoft

tel +61-8570-5050

c a m e r o n . s h o r t e r @ l i s a s o f t . c o m

[[Category:FOSS4G2009]]
[[Category:FOSS4G]]

FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 14

2009-05-19T21:38:46Z

Wiki-Harleyp: /* FOSS4G 2009 Call for Abstracts */

= FOSS4G 2009 Call for Abstracts =

Sydney, Australia. 25 May 2009.

ONE week to go for presentation abstract submissions!

The Organising Committee would like to remind all interested presenters to submit their abstracts for the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial conference (FOSS4G), being held in Sydney, Australia October 20-23. Abstract submission closes on June 1st 2009.

So, get those abstracts in and secure your presentation slot at the conference. Presentations are open to all those interested and will comprise a 30 minute slot which includes hand-over, introductions and 5 minutes for questions. Presentations will be selected which have a strong "Open Geospatial" theme to them. We are keen to hear about your experiences, both technical and non technical. While the technology is a key part of the conference, in 2009 we are very keen to have a good selection of case studies and business case type presentations. How did you build the business case for FOSS4G and how has the technology made a diefference to your business or organisation?

For more information, visit the FOSS4G site at http://2009.foss4g.org/presentations/

The deadline for presentation submissions is June 1st 2009. See you in Sydney.

----

For information about this announcement, contact:

FOSS4G Organising Committee: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009#Contact_Us

or,

Cameron Shorter, Chair of the FOSS4G Organising Committee and Geospatial Systems Architect at LISAsoft

tel +61-8570-5050

c a m e r o n . s h o r t e r @ l i s a s o f t . c o m

[[Category:FOSS4G2009]]
[[Category:FOSS4G]]

FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 14

2009-05-19T21:36:28Z

Wiki-Harleyp: New page: = FOSS4G 2009 Call for Abstracts = Sydney, Australia. 25 May 2009. ONE week to go for presentation abstract submissions! The Organising Committee would like to remind all interested p...

= FOSS4G 2009 Call for Abstracts =

Sydney, Australia. 25 May 2009.

ONE week to go for presentation abstract submissions!

The Organising Committee would like to remind all interested presenters to submit their abstracts for the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial conference (FOSS4G), being held in Sydney, Australia October 20-23. Abstract submission closes on June 1st 2009.

So, get those abstracts in and secure your presentation slot at the conference. Presentations are open to all those interested and will comprise a 30 minute slot which includes hand-over, introductions and 5 minutes for questions. Presentations will be selected which have a strong "Open Geospatial" theme to them. We are keen to hear about your expereinces, both technical and non technical. While the technology is a key part of the conference, in 2009 we are very keen to have a good selection of case studies and business case type presentations. How did you build the business case for FOSS4G and how has the technology made a diefference to your business or organistaion?

For more information, visit the FOSS4G site at http://2009.foss4g.org/presentations/

The deadline for presentation submissions is June 1st 2009. See you in Sydney.

----

For information about this announcement, contact:

FOSS4G Organising Committee: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009#Contact_Us

or,

Cameron Shorter, Chair of the FOSS4G Organising Committee and Geospatial Systems Architect at LISAsoft

tel +61-8570-5050

c a m e r o n . s h o r t e r @ l i s a s o f t . c o m

[[Category:FOSS4G2009]]
[[Category:FOSS4G]]

FOSS4G 2009 Website Feedback

2009-04-22T03:28:00Z

Wiki-Harleyp: /* Feedback */

Back to [[FOSS4G 2009]]...

== Feedback to Tourhost ==

This page is meant to brainstorm ideas and provide feedback on the current version of the FOSS4G Sydney website

=== Current Version ===
http://www.tourhosts.com.au/testdev/foss4g/

== Feedback ==

==== Home Page Changes ====
Harley 22/4/2009 - Draft

In preparation for the opening of registration and to spruce up the appeal for the conference, the Invitation on the home page needs re-working. We need to emphasise that there is broad appeal and that the conference is just for techies. We want to attarct managers and decision makes, those that are interested in what Open Source means from a busines advantage point of view, and those that are keen to use the conference to learn more about this aspect of Open Source. Here is a start:


'''Invitation'''

We are delighted to welcome you to Sydney, Australia, for the FOSS4G 2009 Conference, which will take place from Tuesday 20 - Friday 23 October, 2009.

FOSS4G is heralded as the international "gathering of tribes" of open source geospatial communities, where developers and users show off their latest software and projects. The theme for 2009 is "User Driven", highlighting the power of Open Source to solve business problems.

If your are a geospatial open source convert, a GIS or ICT manager interested in examaining the business advantages that open source may offer you, or a developer looking to get into geospatial develeopment, we invite you to attend this years conference to expand your knowledge, network with your peers and chat with some of the key local and internation proponents of FOSS4G.

''' What to expect in 2009! '''

Carrying on the FOSS4G conference tradition, 2009 will present a comprehensive agenda, combining content from across the geospatial spectrum.

In line with the 2009 theme, "User Driven", the conference will have renewed focus on the business imperatives for adopting open source solutions. The program will contain a broad range of presentations and case studies that address the topics of interest to managers and decision makers as well as those that may be more technically orientated.

There is a supurb range of workshops and tuitorials that will appeal to those new to geospatial and looking to get started, and to those that are keen to expand their skills and take their exsiting implementations and projects to the next level.

FOSS4G 2009 also boasts a excellent range of keynote speakers...more...

FOSS4G is a unique event which collects together a global community into a single location for an intensive week of activity. Year on year, FOSS4G provides a great opportunity to take part in a very special event, where ideas mix together with language to create a network of collaboration and creativity.



==== Site Layout & Design ====
* Generally +ve response on the layout of the site
* OSGeo logo should be there '''We have added it to the side bar'''
* Tour host logo is unnecessary and detracts from OSGeo '''all Tour Hosts websites have our logo as it is one of the small ways we promote ourselves.'''
* Tourhosts contact info OK, but no graphic identity.
* I wonder if it's a bit too tall (taking more vertical space than really needed) '''We can make it smaller, but I think then we would lose some of the photo. What do others think?'''
* If it couldn't convey more information(e.g. the 2007 page banner, in addition to 'some images' and the logo includes a 'message', the full name of the conference, and the conference dates: http://www.foss4g2007.org/) '''Done'''
* Any "items" in the banner, such as images or text, should be links back to the Home page '''Do you mean you want to link the banner to go the home page? '''

===== Side Bar (Left) =====
* Generally OK, however, how will it look when categories need 'subcategories'? For example, what if "Program" needs "Workshops", "Labs", "Presentations", etc? Should the order of the existing menu items be changed? (e.g. Committee doesn't need to be 'at the top')'''We can add subcategories, so that when someone clicks on a item such as 'Program' the subcategories come down'''
* Contact Us Block on Left Side: I don't think this belongs here at all. There should be a separate "Contact Us" page(but maybe "Contacts" is better? That's what 2007 used), with a corresponding link in the Menu. '''We have moved this information to the footer and have added a contact us page.'''

===== Main Content (Center) =====
* No general comments.

===== Side Bar (Right) =====
* Will all pages have a 'right column', or perhaps only some pages? For example, for 2007, most pages did not have a right column, but the Home and Sponsorship pages did, where it was used to display the sponsor logos. As for the current "Expression of Interest" right column, get rid of it - it doesn't belong there, even at this stage (more about this below).''' We have moved the SOGeo Logo here, I like having a side bar on each page, What do others think?'''

===== Footer =====
* This div is too tall for the information it contains. Get rid of the copyright notice. Use the footer for some 'contact info', like what was done for 2007. Use a personal email address, not "Webmaster". Get rid of the "Website validate XHTML and CSS" text (not because the pages don't validate, but because it is unnecessary to advertise this). '''We have taken off the above information and added the contact information to the footer.'''

===== Page Titles =====
* The page's Title element should change from page to page (not always be the same as the Home page) in order to aid visitors who may bookmark specific pages

===== 404 Error =====
* The default "404 Not Found" behavior for typical 'root page names' such as "index.htm" and "index.html" should be a redirect to "default.asp", if that is the name of the website's home page.
* Some good practices for handling 404s http://alistapart.com/articles/perfect404/

===== Standard Validations =====
* All pages should validate to the required standards. The current Home page has 27 errors for the XHTML, and the CSS has 1 error and 23 warnings. I didn't do any accessibility checks, or check other pages.

* If this website content is "incomplete", which we know it will be for the next while, do not include 'essentially empty' placeholder pages (e.g. Program, Social, Sponsorship, Accommodation, Registration). Only add such pages when there is 'real content'. The Home page can convey the "watch this space" message to site visitors (but don't use vague terms like 'coming soon'). '''Done'''

===== Committee page =====
* Remove the word "Local". '''Done'''
* How about a map showing where the committee members are located? '''We are happy to add this, does someone want to put it together?'''
* It's a webpage, so include links where possible (e.g. see the 2007 About page: http://www.foss4g2007.org/about_foss4g/). ''' We can do this, however we would require more information about what link to add'''
* I think it would look better if each person had:

- name
- job title (i.e. not 'committee title')
- company name
- city/region/country
- possibly committee title
(Chair is fine, but do we also want to add things like Workshop Coordinator, etc?)

* I tidied up the OSGeo section of the governance wiki page, and updated my info as an example:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Governance. '''We are happy to do this, can everyone update their details on the wiki and we will update it on the website'''

===== Contacts page =====
* Add a 'Contacts' (or 'Contact Us') page, including a form that people can fill out. Mandatory parts of the form would be email address, subject, and 'comments', but other fields, if they exist, such as Title, Organization, etc. would be optional. Don't default "Title" to "Mr". '''Done'''

===== Add a "Stay Informed" page =====
* There may be a better name than 'Stay Informed', and it's likely that this page should be mentioned/linked from some text on the Home page (and maybe the "Contacts" page?). This page would cover any means that people can use to stay informed about FOSS4G2009. For now, the minimum would be to have a paragraph about this mailing list (and perhaps also the Wiki?). As they are developed, other things can be added. Some possibilities are: '''We are doing this through the Expression of interest form. This information that people entre into each field is captured and we send e-blasts to them telling them about what is happening with the Conference'''

- mention of any other mailing lists, such as a FOSS4G2009 Announcements mailing list
- info about a 'FOSS4G2009 blog'
- an RSS feed of 'website updates' (i.e. when new pages/content are added to existing pages)
- an RSS feed similar to 2007 for Presentations, if there is to be a community review

Also see [[#Social_Networking_Elements | Social Networking Elements]]

===== Expression of Interest =====
* Do away with this functionality. The "Stay Informed" page will direct people to 'pull' methods of receiving information about FOSS4G2009, and the "Contacts" page provides better functionality, as it's form would allow people to ask questions. '''See above'''

===== Sponsorship page =====
* Do not include a checkbox for "Potential Sponsor" on the "Contacts" page, but on that page (and perhaps other pages) direct potential sponsors to the Sponsorship page. On this page provide some relevant information now, so that this page exists right from the start of the website. Provide both an email address to contact as well as a form to use for making contact. (do not use "click here" for email addresses)'''We have taken this page off'''

==== Site URL & Domain Name ====
* Standardize on http://foss4g.org/2009
* Issue of using .asp . This is an Open Source techie conference and many techies will be disappointed to see a proprietary Microsoft driven site.

==== Social Networking Elements ====
For a general understanding of the importance of social networking element of the site please see
the [http://en.oreilly.com/webexny2008/public/content/home stay connected sidebar @Web2.0 Expo]
* Crowdvine page for the code sprint e.g. [http://wherecamp.crowdvine.com/ wherecamp]
* Twitter ([[User:sab|sab]] setup a conf account at http://twitter.com/foss4g2009) other e.g. [http://twitter.com/w2e_NY08 Web 2.0 Expo], [http://www.netsquared.org/blog/metromapper/use-twitter-conference-organize-and-meet-other-attendees reasoning about using twitter]
* ICal feed for the conference schedule: [http://en.oreilly.com/webexny2008/public/content/home Web 2.0 Expo]

== Standard Procedures for Website Additions/Updates ==

What process and policies will guide FOSS4G2009 website updates/additions?

=== Process: ===
Regardless of who is working on the update/addition, what "process" will be used? Some thoughts:

* while there may be an upside in terms of exposure, one downside of having 'the first cut' announced on this public list is that the list is archived and publicly available, therefore search engines may 'grab content' that we decide shouldn't be made public

* if the Organizing Committee doesn't review the content first, before it is available publicly, there may be the risk of wrong or mixed messages

* is a 'two step review' (Organizing Committee, then this public list) too much 'management'
* is the process any different for an update to the content of an existing page vs a new page

=== Policies: ===
What policies/guidelines will apply to updates/addition to the FOSS4G2009 website? Some thoughts:
* all pages must be valid (but what standard do we use to validate against? XHTML 1.0 Transitional?)
* the CSS used must be valid (but what standard do we use to validate against? CSS level 2?)
* what if any other standards must be met? (e.g. accessibility guidelines)
* which versions of which web browsers on which platforms must be used for testing, and are there specific types of tests that must be done?
* do 'interactive pages', such as pages with forms, need additional testing(i.e. to ensure that the form submission has been fully tested by multiple people, including 'the public', and that the submitted data is what is expected)
* is there a standard 'layout' that will be applied to all pages (e.g. top banner with 3-column layout below, + footer?)

== Website todo list ==

This section is intended to record ongoing tasks for the website:

*Integrate OCS for managing the presentation/paper submissions (including skinnig OCS inline with current css)
*Add ICal feed for Conference Programme
*Add CrowdVine link for codesprint
*Correct spelling of surname for Harley Prowse on committee page (made live 28/10/2008)
*Remove "GeoBiz" from details for Harley prowse on committee page (made live 28/10/2008)
*Look into options for presenting the conference schedule effectively online
*Add Privacy Policy Page
*remove target="blank" references (made live 28/10/2008)
*FOSS4G Wiki Site link on contacts page is incorrect (made live 28/10/2008)
*Stay connected - wiki link needs to be http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009 (made live 28/10/2008)
*On http://2009.foss4g.org/committee/ , link "Cameron Shorter" to http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/ and "LISAsoft" to http://lisasoft.com (made live 28/10/2008)
*Once we have finalised details of the code sprint, update index.html to say "... will take place from Tuesday 20 - Friday 23 October, 2009 plus an extra XX days for software developers coming to the Code Sprint" (or similar).
*Header image to say "20-23 October + code sprint" or similar
*Add Jody Garnett to committee list (made live 28/10/2008)
*Fix typo in http://2009.foss4g.org/general/ - Planning your travel: The suggested arrival date is 15 November 2009. Should be October. (made live 24/11/2008)
*Change "The 2008 conference will be held in Cape Town, South Africa and is shaping up to be a fantastic event." to "The 2008 conference was held in Cape Town, South Africa and proved to be a fantastic event." (made live 11/11/2008)

[[Category:FOSS4G2009]]

FOSS4G 2009 Website Feedback

2009-04-22T03:24:56Z

Wiki-Harleyp: /* Invitation */

Back to [[FOSS4G 2009]]...

== Feedback to Tourhost ==

This page is meant to brainstorm ideas and provide feedback on the current version of the FOSS4G Sydney website

=== Current Version ===
http://www.tourhosts.com.au/testdev/foss4g/

== Feedback ==

==== Home Page Changes ====
Harley 22/4/2009 - Draft

In preparation for the opening of registration and to spruce up the appeal for the conference, the Invitation on the home page needs re-working. We need to emphasise that there is broad appeal and that the conference is just for techies. We want to attarct managers and decision makes, those that are interested in what Open Source means from a busines advantage point of view, and those that are keen to use the conference to learn more about this aspect of Open Source. Here is a start:


=== Invitation ===
We are delighted to welcome you to Sydney, Australia, for the FOSS4G 2009 Conference, which will take place from Tuesday 20 - Friday 23 October, 2009.

FOSS4G is heralded as the international "gathering of tribes" of open source geospatial communities, where developers and users show off their latest software and projects. The theme for 2009 is "User Driven", highlighting the power of Open Source to solve business problems.

If your are a geospatial open source convert, a GIS or ICT manager interested in examaining the business advantages that open source may offer you, or a developer looking to get into geospatial develeopment, we invite you to attend this years conference to expand your knowledge, network with your peers and chat with some of the key local and internation proponents of FOSS4G.

=== What to expect in 2009! ===
Carrying on the FOSS4G conference tradition, 2009 will present a comprehensive agenda, combining content from across the geospatial spectrum.

In line with the 2009 theme, "User Driven", the conference will have renewed focus on the business imperatives for adopting open source solutions. The program will contain a broad range of presentations and case studies that address the topics of interest to managers and decision makers as well as those that may be more technically orientated.

There is a supurb range of workshops and tuitorials that will appeal to those new to geospatial and looking to get started, and to those that are keen to expand their skills and take their exsiting implementations and projects to the next level.

FOSS4G 2009 also boasts a excellent range of keynote speakers...more...

FOSS4G is a unique event which collects together a global community into a single location for an intensive week of activity. Year on year, FOSS4G provides a great opportunity to take part in a very special event, where ideas mix together with language to create a network of collaboration and creativity.



==== Site Layout & Design ====
* Generally +ve response on the layout of the site
* OSGeo logo should be there '''We have added it to the side bar'''
* Tour host logo is unnecessary and detracts from OSGeo '''all Tour Hosts websites have our logo as it is one of the small ways we promote ourselves.'''
* Tourhosts contact info OK, but no graphic identity.
* I wonder if it's a bit too tall (taking more vertical space than really needed) '''We can make it smaller, but I think then we would lose some of the photo. What do others think?'''
* If it couldn't convey more information(e.g. the 2007 page banner, in addition to 'some images' and the logo includes a 'message', the full name of the conference, and the conference dates: http://www.foss4g2007.org/) '''Done'''
* Any "items" in the banner, such as images or text, should be links back to the Home page '''Do you mean you want to link the banner to go the home page? '''

===== Side Bar (Left) =====
* Generally OK, however, how will it look when categories need 'subcategories'? For example, what if "Program" needs "Workshops", "Labs", "Presentations", etc? Should the order of the existing menu items be changed? (e.g. Committee doesn't need to be 'at the top')'''We can add subcategories, so that when someone clicks on a item such as 'Program' the subcategories come down'''
* Contact Us Block on Left Side: I don't think this belongs here at all. There should be a separate "Contact Us" page(but maybe "Contacts" is better? That's what 2007 used), with a corresponding link in the Menu. '''We have moved this information to the footer and have added a contact us page.'''

===== Main Content (Center) =====
* No general comments.

===== Side Bar (Right) =====
* Will all pages have a 'right column', or perhaps only some pages? For example, for 2007, most pages did not have a right column, but the Home and Sponsorship pages did, where it was used to display the sponsor logos. As for the current "Expression of Interest" right column, get rid of it - it doesn't belong there, even at this stage (more about this below).''' We have moved the SOGeo Logo here, I like having a side bar on each page, What do others think?'''

===== Footer =====
* This div is too tall for the information it contains. Get rid of the copyright notice. Use the footer for some 'contact info', like what was done for 2007. Use a personal email address, not "Webmaster". Get rid of the "Website validate XHTML and CSS" text (not because the pages don't validate, but because it is unnecessary to advertise this). '''We have taken off the above information and added the contact information to the footer.'''

===== Page Titles =====
* The page's Title element should change from page to page (not always be the same as the Home page) in order to aid visitors who may bookmark specific pages

===== 404 Error =====
* The default "404 Not Found" behavior for typical 'root page names' such as "index.htm" and "index.html" should be a redirect to "default.asp", if that is the name of the website's home page.
* Some good practices for handling 404s http://alistapart.com/articles/perfect404/

===== Standard Validations =====
* All pages should validate to the required standards. The current Home page has 27 errors for the XHTML, and the CSS has 1 error and 23 warnings. I didn't do any accessibility checks, or check other pages.

* If this website content is "incomplete", which we know it will be for the next while, do not include 'essentially empty' placeholder pages (e.g. Program, Social, Sponsorship, Accommodation, Registration). Only add such pages when there is 'real content'. The Home page can convey the "watch this space" message to site visitors (but don't use vague terms like 'coming soon'). '''Done'''

===== Committee page =====
* Remove the word "Local". '''Done'''
* How about a map showing where the committee members are located? '''We are happy to add this, does someone want to put it together?'''
* It's a webpage, so include links where possible (e.g. see the 2007 About page: http://www.foss4g2007.org/about_foss4g/). ''' We can do this, however we would require more information about what link to add'''
* I think it would look better if each person had:

- name
- job title (i.e. not 'committee title')
- company name
- city/region/country
- possibly committee title
(Chair is fine, but do we also want to add things like Workshop Coordinator, etc?)

* I tidied up the OSGeo section of the governance wiki page, and updated my info as an example:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Governance. '''We are happy to do this, can everyone update their details on the wiki and we will update it on the website'''

===== Contacts page =====
* Add a 'Contacts' (or 'Contact Us') page, including a form that people can fill out. Mandatory parts of the form would be email address, subject, and 'comments', but other fields, if they exist, such as Title, Organization, etc. would be optional. Don't default "Title" to "Mr". '''Done'''

===== Add a "Stay Informed" page =====
* There may be a better name than 'Stay Informed', and it's likely that this page should be mentioned/linked from some text on the Home page (and maybe the "Contacts" page?). This page would cover any means that people can use to stay informed about FOSS4G2009. For now, the minimum would be to have a paragraph about this mailing list (and perhaps also the Wiki?). As they are developed, other things can be added. Some possibilities are: '''We are doing this through the Expression of interest form. This information that people entre into each field is captured and we send e-blasts to them telling them about what is happening with the Conference'''

- mention of any other mailing lists, such as a FOSS4G2009 Announcements mailing list
- info about a 'FOSS4G2009 blog'
- an RSS feed of 'website updates' (i.e. when new pages/content are added to existing pages)
- an RSS feed similar to 2007 for Presentations, if there is to be a community review

Also see [[#Social_Networking_Elements | Social Networking Elements]]

===== Expression of Interest =====
* Do away with this functionality. The "Stay Informed" page will direct people to 'pull' methods of receiving information about FOSS4G2009, and the "Contacts" page provides better functionality, as it's form would allow people to ask questions. '''See above'''

===== Sponsorship page =====
* Do not include a checkbox for "Potential Sponsor" on the "Contacts" page, but on that page (and perhaps other pages) direct potential sponsors to the Sponsorship page. On this page provide some relevant information now, so that this page exists right from the start of the website. Provide both an email address to contact as well as a form to use for making contact. (do not use "click here" for email addresses)'''We have taken this page off'''

==== Site URL & Domain Name ====
* Standardize on http://foss4g.org/2009
* Issue of using .asp . This is an Open Source techie conference and many techies will be disappointed to see a proprietary Microsoft driven site.

==== Social Networking Elements ====
For a general understanding of the importance of social networking element of the site please see
the [http://en.oreilly.com/webexny2008/public/content/home stay connected sidebar @Web2.0 Expo]
* Crowdvine page for the code sprint e.g. [http://wherecamp.crowdvine.com/ wherecamp]
* Twitter ([[User:sab|sab]] setup a conf account at http://twitter.com/foss4g2009) other e.g. [http://twitter.com/w2e_NY08 Web 2.0 Expo], [http://www.netsquared.org/blog/metromapper/use-twitter-conference-organize-and-meet-other-attendees reasoning about using twitter]
* ICal feed for the conference schedule: [http://en.oreilly.com/webexny2008/public/content/home Web 2.0 Expo]

== Standard Procedures for Website Additions/Updates ==

What process and policies will guide FOSS4G2009 website updates/additions?

=== Process: ===
Regardless of who is working on the update/addition, what "process" will be used? Some thoughts:

* while there may be an upside in terms of exposure, one downside of having 'the first cut' announced on this public list is that the list is archived and publicly available, therefore search engines may 'grab content' that we decide shouldn't be made public

* if the Organizing Committee doesn't review the content first, before it is available publicly, there may be the risk of wrong or mixed messages

* is a 'two step review' (Organizing Committee, then this public list) too much 'management'
* is the process any different for an update to the content of an existing page vs a new page

=== Policies: ===
What policies/guidelines will apply to updates/addition to the FOSS4G2009 website? Some thoughts:
* all pages must be valid (but what standard do we use to validate against? XHTML 1.0 Transitional?)
* the CSS used must be valid (but what standard do we use to validate against? CSS level 2?)
* what if any other standards must be met? (e.g. accessibility guidelines)
* which versions of which web browsers on which platforms must be used for testing, and are there specific types of tests that must be done?
* do 'interactive pages', such as pages with forms, need additional testing(i.e. to ensure that the form submission has been fully tested by multiple people, including 'the public', and that the submitted data is what is expected)
* is there a standard 'layout' that will be applied to all pages (e.g. top banner with 3-column layout below, + footer?)

== Website todo list ==

This section is intended to record ongoing tasks for the website:

*Integrate OCS for managing the presentation/paper submissions (including skinnig OCS inline with current css)
*Add ICal feed for Conference Programme
*Add CrowdVine link for codesprint
*Correct spelling of surname for Harley Prowse on committee page (made live 28/10/2008)
*Remove "GeoBiz" from details for Harley prowse on committee page (made live 28/10/2008)
*Look into options for presenting the conference schedule effectively online
*Add Privacy Policy Page
*remove target="blank" references (made live 28/10/2008)
*FOSS4G Wiki Site link on contacts page is incorrect (made live 28/10/2008)
*Stay connected - wiki link needs to be http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009 (made live 28/10/2008)
*On http://2009.foss4g.org/committee/ , link "Cameron Shorter" to http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/ and "LISAsoft" to http://lisasoft.com (made live 28/10/2008)
*Once we have finalised details of the code sprint, update index.html to say "... will take place from Tuesday 20 - Friday 23 October, 2009 plus an extra XX days for software developers coming to the Code Sprint" (or similar).
*Header image to say "20-23 October + code sprint" or similar
*Add Jody Garnett to committee list (made live 28/10/2008)
*Fix typo in http://2009.foss4g.org/general/ - Planning your travel: The suggested arrival date is 15 November 2009. Should be October. (made live 24/11/2008)
*Change "The 2008 conference will be held in Cape Town, South Africa and is shaping up to be a fantastic event." to "The 2008 conference was held in Cape Town, South Africa and proved to be a fantastic event." (made live 11/11/2008)

[[Category:FOSS4G2009]]

FOSS4G 2009 Website Feedback

2009-04-22T03:18:28Z

Wiki-Harleyp: /* Feedback */

Back to [[FOSS4G 2009]]...

== Feedback to Tourhost ==

This page is meant to brainstorm ideas and provide feedback on the current version of the FOSS4G Sydney website

=== Current Version ===
http://www.tourhosts.com.au/testdev/foss4g/

== Feedback ==

==== Home Page Changes ====
Harley 22/4/2009 - Draft

In preparation for the opening of registration and to spruce up the appeal for the conference, the Invitation on the home page needs re-working. We need to emphasise that there is broad appeal and that the conference is just for techies. We want to attarct managers and decision makes, those that are interested in what Open Source means from a busines advantage point of view, and those that are keen to use the conference to learn more about this aspect of Open Source. Here is a start:


=== Invitation ===
We are delighted to welcome you to Sydney, Australia, for the FOSS4G 2009 Conference, which will take place from Tuesday 20 - Friday 23 October, 2009.

FOSS4G is heralded as the international "gathering of tribes" of open source geospatial communities, where developers and users show off their latest software and projects. The theme for 2009 is "User Driven", highlighting the power of Open Source to solve business problems.

If your are a geospatial open source convert, a manager interested in examaining the business advantages that open source may offer you, or a developer looking to get into geospatial develeopment, we invite you to attend this years conference to expand your knowledge, network with your peers and chat with some of the key local and internation proponents of FOSS4G.

=== What to expect in 2009! ===
Carrying on the FOSS4G conference tradition, 2009 will present a comprehensive agenda, combining content from across the geospatial spectrum.

In line with the 2009 theme, "User Driven", the conference will have renewed focus on the business imperatives for adopting open source solutions. The program will contain a broad range of presentations and case studies that address the topics of interest to managers and decision makers as well as those that may be more technically orientated.

There is a supurb range of workshops and tuitorials that will appeal to those new to geospatial and looking to get started, and to those that are keen to expand their skills and take their exsiting implementations and projects to the next level.

FOSS4G 2009 also boasts a excellent range of keynote speakers...more...

FOSS4G is a unique event which collects together a global community into a single location for an intensive week of activity. Year on year, FOSS4G provides a great opportunity to take part in a very special event, where ideas mix together with language to create a network of collaboration and creativity.



==== Site Layout & Design ====
* Generally +ve response on the layout of the site
* OSGeo logo should be there '''We have added it to the side bar'''
* Tour host logo is unnecessary and detracts from OSGeo '''all Tour Hosts websites have our logo as it is one of the small ways we promote ourselves.'''
* Tourhosts contact info OK, but no graphic identity.
* I wonder if it's a bit too tall (taking more vertical space than really needed) '''We can make it smaller, but I think then we would lose some of the photo. What do others think?'''
* If it couldn't convey more information(e.g. the 2007 page banner, in addition to 'some images' and the logo includes a 'message', the full name of the conference, and the conference dates: http://www.foss4g2007.org/) '''Done'''
* Any "items" in the banner, such as images or text, should be links back to the Home page '''Do you mean you want to link the banner to go the home page? '''

===== Side Bar (Left) =====
* Generally OK, however, how will it look when categories need 'subcategories'? For example, what if "Program" needs "Workshops", "Labs", "Presentations", etc? Should the order of the existing menu items be changed? (e.g. Committee doesn't need to be 'at the top')'''We can add subcategories, so that when someone clicks on a item such as 'Program' the subcategories come down'''
* Contact Us Block on Left Side: I don't think this belongs here at all. There should be a separate "Contact Us" page(but maybe "Contacts" is better? That's what 2007 used), with a corresponding link in the Menu. '''We have moved this information to the footer and have added a contact us page.'''

===== Main Content (Center) =====
* No general comments.

===== Side Bar (Right) =====
* Will all pages have a 'right column', or perhaps only some pages? For example, for 2007, most pages did not have a right column, but the Home and Sponsorship pages did, where it was used to display the sponsor logos. As for the current "Expression of Interest" right column, get rid of it - it doesn't belong there, even at this stage (more about this below).''' We have moved the SOGeo Logo here, I like having a side bar on each page, What do others think?'''

===== Footer =====
* This div is too tall for the information it contains. Get rid of the copyright notice. Use the footer for some 'contact info', like what was done for 2007. Use a personal email address, not "Webmaster". Get rid of the "Website validate XHTML and CSS" text (not because the pages don't validate, but because it is unnecessary to advertise this). '''We have taken off the above information and added the contact information to the footer.'''

===== Page Titles =====
* The page's Title element should change from page to page (not always be the same as the Home page) in order to aid visitors who may bookmark specific pages

===== 404 Error =====
* The default "404 Not Found" behavior for typical 'root page names' such as "index.htm" and "index.html" should be a redirect to "default.asp", if that is the name of the website's home page.
* Some good practices for handling 404s http://alistapart.com/articles/perfect404/

===== Standard Validations =====
* All pages should validate to the required standards. The current Home page has 27 errors for the XHTML, and the CSS has 1 error and 23 warnings. I didn't do any accessibility checks, or check other pages.

* If this website content is "incomplete", which we know it will be for the next while, do not include 'essentially empty' placeholder pages (e.g. Program, Social, Sponsorship, Accommodation, Registration). Only add such pages when there is 'real content'. The Home page can convey the "watch this space" message to site visitors (but don't use vague terms like 'coming soon'). '''Done'''

===== Committee page =====
* Remove the word "Local". '''Done'''
* How about a map showing where the committee members are located? '''We are happy to add this, does someone want to put it together?'''
* It's a webpage, so include links where possible (e.g. see the 2007 About page: http://www.foss4g2007.org/about_foss4g/). ''' We can do this, however we would require more information about what link to add'''
* I think it would look better if each person had:

- name
- job title (i.e. not 'committee title')
- company name
- city/region/country
- possibly committee title
(Chair is fine, but do we also want to add things like Workshop Coordinator, etc?)

* I tidied up the OSGeo section of the governance wiki page, and updated my info as an example:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Governance. '''We are happy to do this, can everyone update their details on the wiki and we will update it on the website'''

===== Contacts page =====
* Add a 'Contacts' (or 'Contact Us') page, including a form that people can fill out. Mandatory parts of the form would be email address, subject, and 'comments', but other fields, if they exist, such as Title, Organization, etc. would be optional. Don't default "Title" to "Mr". '''Done'''

===== Add a "Stay Informed" page =====
* There may be a better name than 'Stay Informed', and it's likely that this page should be mentioned/linked from some text on the Home page (and maybe the "Contacts" page?). This page would cover any means that people can use to stay informed about FOSS4G2009. For now, the minimum would be to have a paragraph about this mailing list (and perhaps also the Wiki?). As they are developed, other things can be added. Some possibilities are: '''We are doing this through the Expression of interest form. This information that people entre into each field is captured and we send e-blasts to them telling them about what is happening with the Conference'''

- mention of any other mailing lists, such as a FOSS4G2009 Announcements mailing list
- info about a 'FOSS4G2009 blog'
- an RSS feed of 'website updates' (i.e. when new pages/content are added to existing pages)
- an RSS feed similar to 2007 for Presentations, if there is to be a community review

Also see [[#Social_Networking_Elements | Social Networking Elements]]

===== Expression of Interest =====
* Do away with this functionality. The "Stay Informed" page will direct people to 'pull' methods of receiving information about FOSS4G2009, and the "Contacts" page provides better functionality, as it's form would allow people to ask questions. '''See above'''

===== Sponsorship page =====
* Do not include a checkbox for "Potential Sponsor" on the "Contacts" page, but on that page (and perhaps other pages) direct potential sponsors to the Sponsorship page. On this page provide some relevant information now, so that this page exists right from the start of the website. Provide both an email address to contact as well as a form to use for making contact. (do not use "click here" for email addresses)'''We have taken this page off'''

==== Site URL & Domain Name ====
* Standardize on http://foss4g.org/2009
* Issue of using .asp . This is an Open Source techie conference and many techies will be disappointed to see a proprietary Microsoft driven site.

==== Social Networking Elements ====
For a general understanding of the importance of social networking element of the site please see
the [http://en.oreilly.com/webexny2008/public/content/home stay connected sidebar @Web2.0 Expo]
* Crowdvine page for the code sprint e.g. [http://wherecamp.crowdvine.com/ wherecamp]
* Twitter ([[User:sab|sab]] setup a conf account at http://twitter.com/foss4g2009) other e.g. [http://twitter.com/w2e_NY08 Web 2.0 Expo], [http://www.netsquared.org/blog/metromapper/use-twitter-conference-organize-and-meet-other-attendees reasoning about using twitter]
* ICal feed for the conference schedule: [http://en.oreilly.com/webexny2008/public/content/home Web 2.0 Expo]

== Standard Procedures for Website Additions/Updates ==

What process and policies will guide FOSS4G2009 website updates/additions?

=== Process: ===
Regardless of who is working on the update/addition, what "process" will be used? Some thoughts:

* while there may be an upside in terms of exposure, one downside of having 'the first cut' announced on this public list is that the list is archived and publicly available, therefore search engines may 'grab content' that we decide shouldn't be made public

* if the Organizing Committee doesn't review the content first, before it is available publicly, there may be the risk of wrong or mixed messages

* is a 'two step review' (Organizing Committee, then this public list) too much 'management'
* is the process any different for an update to the content of an existing page vs a new page

=== Policies: ===
What policies/guidelines will apply to updates/addition to the FOSS4G2009 website? Some thoughts:
* all pages must be valid (but what standard do we use to validate against? XHTML 1.0 Transitional?)
* the CSS used must be valid (but what standard do we use to validate against? CSS level 2?)
* what if any other standards must be met? (e.g. accessibility guidelines)
* which versions of which web browsers on which platforms must be used for testing, and are there specific types of tests that must be done?
* do 'interactive pages', such as pages with forms, need additional testing(i.e. to ensure that the form submission has been fully tested by multiple people, including 'the public', and that the submitted data is what is expected)
* is there a standard 'layout' that will be applied to all pages (e.g. top banner with 3-column layout below, + footer?)

== Website todo list ==

This section is intended to record ongoing tasks for the website:

*Integrate OCS for managing the presentation/paper submissions (including skinnig OCS inline with current css)
*Add ICal feed for Conference Programme
*Add CrowdVine link for codesprint
*Correct spelling of surname for Harley Prowse on committee page (made live 28/10/2008)
*Remove "GeoBiz" from details for Harley prowse on committee page (made live 28/10/2008)
*Look into options for presenting the conference schedule effectively online
*Add Privacy Policy Page
*remove target="blank" references (made live 28/10/2008)
*FOSS4G Wiki Site link on contacts page is incorrect (made live 28/10/2008)
*Stay connected - wiki link needs to be http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009 (made live 28/10/2008)
*On http://2009.foss4g.org/committee/ , link "Cameron Shorter" to http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/ and "LISAsoft" to http://lisasoft.com (made live 28/10/2008)
*Once we have finalised details of the code sprint, update index.html to say "... will take place from Tuesday 20 - Friday 23 October, 2009 plus an extra XX days for software developers coming to the Code Sprint" (or similar).
*Header image to say "20-23 October + code sprint" or similar
*Add Jody Garnett to committee list (made live 28/10/2008)
*Fix typo in http://2009.foss4g.org/general/ - Planning your travel: The suggested arrival date is 15 November 2009. Should be October. (made live 24/11/2008)
*Change "The 2008 conference will be held in Cape Town, South Africa and is shaping up to be a fantastic event." to "The 2008 conference was held in Cape Town, South Africa and proved to be a fantastic event." (made live 11/11/2008)

[[Category:FOSS4G2009]]

FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 11

2009-04-22T02:30:59Z

Wiki-Harleyp: /* FOSS4G conference registration opens */

___ DRAFT ___ 

=FOSS4G conference registration opens=

Sydney, Australia. 4 May 2009.


TBD: Cover:
* Registration opens
** Prices
* Time & Date
* Tell us about your presentation

Harley 22/4/2009 - Initial Draft

Are you planning to present at this years conference? If so, don't wait until you have your presentation finalised to tell us about it! Go to the submission website now (http://2009.foss4g.org/presentations/) and enter your name and contact details and at least a title. Then, closer to the close-off date, log back in and fill out the abstract details. This will be a big help for the organisers as it will give us some advanced notice as to how many and what type of presentations to expect.

* Promote the conference from your webpage or blog
* CCIP status and how to get involved


==FOSS4G 2009 Highlights==
'''The Climate Challenge Integration Plugfest (CCIP)''': FOSS4G will launch the OGC's Climate Challenge Integration Plugfest (CCIP), which demonstrates standards based interoperability between Open Source and Proprietary geospatial applications. It consists of a server with multiple virtual machines, each installed with geospatial applications offering standards based web services. All web services will demonstrate a common dataset, and will be accessed by a range of geospatial client applications installed on client computers. http://external.opengis.org/twiki_public/bin/view/ClimateChallenge2009/WebHome

Presenters are encouraged (but not mandated) to make use of scenarios and on-site data from the Climate Challenge Integration Plugfest (CCIP). This is especially important as demand for access to data over the internet is expected to be high, and Australia has notoriously slow connections to the outside world.

'''FOSS4G Live DVD''': LiveDVDs, based on the Xubuntu operating system and including Geospatial Open Source Software, will be given to all delegates. Users can boot a Live DVD on their computer and trial the software without installing or effecting the existing system. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc

'''Installfest''': The Installfest will give delegates the opportunity to meet in a common area and install a wide variety of FOSS software on their laptops, EE PC or any other system they care to bring in. Community members will be around to assist with any troubles and provide help and insight into the software. The install fest will take place after workshops on the first day.

'''Workshops and Tutorials''': Workshops and Tutorials allow presenters to lead attendees through applications, integration solutions, or other topics in an interactive environment. Half-day workshops (3 hours) will be held in computer rooms on the first day. Tutorials (90 minutes) will be held in standard presentation rooms, run concurrently with presentations during the third and fourth days.

'''Presentations''': The meat of the conference are it's presentations. Drawing on a huge community of local, regional and international experts we will discuss some of the most current and poignant topics in the industry today.

'''Demo Theatre''': During lunch and coffee breaks the demonstration theatre will be showcasing live software. These short demonstrations from sponsors, open source projects and the user community show what is possible with open source today.

'''Birds of a Feather''': Rooms have been set aside for semi-organised meetings between like minded groups. Some prominant community initiatives started in prior FOSS4G Birds of a Feather sessions.

'''Code Sprint''': The weekend after FOSS4G is reserved for the Hackers' Code Sprint. Hackers will be locked in a basement with lots of bandwidth, pizzas and coke. (Well, maybe something better than that, but we don't want to spoil the mystical hacker image by describing it any differently.)

== Upcoming milestones ==

* 1 Jun 2009, Abstract submission deadline
* 13 Jul 2009, Presenters notified of acceptance for talks
* 31 Jul 2009, '''Author/Early registration deadline'''
* 14 Sep 2009, '''Completed program available on the wiki'''
* 20 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Workshop
* 21-23 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Presentations and Tutorials
* 24-25 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Code Sprint

== Media Sponsors ==
* Position Magazine: http://www.positionmag.com.au/
* Asian Surveying and Mapping Newsletter: http://www.asmmag.com
* Geoconnexions Magazine: http://www.geoconnexion.com/
* Directions Magazine: http://directionsmag.com/

----

For more information or to keep informed from the FOSS4G Organising Committee, join our email list or twitter feed at: http://2009.foss4g.org/contacts/

or contact:

Cameron Shorter, Chair of the FOSS4G Organising Committee and Geospatial Systems Architect at LISAsoft

tel +61-8570-5050

c a m e r o n . s h o r t e r @ l i s a s o f t . c o m

[[Category:FOSS4G2009]]
[[Category:FOSS4G]]

FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 11

2009-04-22T02:30:28Z

Wiki-Harleyp: /* FOSS4G conference registration opens */

___ DRAFT ___ 

=FOSS4G conference registration opens=

Sydney, Australia. 4 May 2009.


TBD: Cover:
* Registration opens
** Prices
* Time & Date
* Tell us about your presentation

Harley 22/4/2009 - Initial Draft
Are you planning to present at this years conference? If so, don't wait until you have your presentation finalised to tell us about it! Go to the submission website now (http://2009.foss4g.org/presentations/) and enter your name and contact details and at least a title. Then, closer to the close-off date, log back in and fill out the abstract details. This will be a big help for the organisers as it will give us some advanced notice as to how many and what type of presentations to expect.

* Promote the conference from your webpage or blog
* CCIP status and how to get involved


==FOSS4G 2009 Highlights==
'''The Climate Challenge Integration Plugfest (CCIP)''': FOSS4G will launch the OGC's Climate Challenge Integration Plugfest (CCIP), which demonstrates standards based interoperability between Open Source and Proprietary geospatial applications. It consists of a server with multiple virtual machines, each installed with geospatial applications offering standards based web services. All web services will demonstrate a common dataset, and will be accessed by a range of geospatial client applications installed on client computers. http://external.opengis.org/twiki_public/bin/view/ClimateChallenge2009/WebHome

Presenters are encouraged (but not mandated) to make use of scenarios and on-site data from the Climate Challenge Integration Plugfest (CCIP). This is especially important as demand for access to data over the internet is expected to be high, and Australia has notoriously slow connections to the outside world.

'''FOSS4G Live DVD''': LiveDVDs, based on the Xubuntu operating system and including Geospatial Open Source Software, will be given to all delegates. Users can boot a Live DVD on their computer and trial the software without installing or effecting the existing system. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc

'''Installfest''': The Installfest will give delegates the opportunity to meet in a common area and install a wide variety of FOSS software on their laptops, EE PC or any other system they care to bring in. Community members will be around to assist with any troubles and provide help and insight into the software. The install fest will take place after workshops on the first day.

'''Workshops and Tutorials''': Workshops and Tutorials allow presenters to lead attendees through applications, integration solutions, or other topics in an interactive environment. Half-day workshops (3 hours) will be held in computer rooms on the first day. Tutorials (90 minutes) will be held in standard presentation rooms, run concurrently with presentations during the third and fourth days.

'''Presentations''': The meat of the conference are it's presentations. Drawing on a huge community of local, regional and international experts we will discuss some of the most current and poignant topics in the industry today.

'''Demo Theatre''': During lunch and coffee breaks the demonstration theatre will be showcasing live software. These short demonstrations from sponsors, open source projects and the user community show what is possible with open source today.

'''Birds of a Feather''': Rooms have been set aside for semi-organised meetings between like minded groups. Some prominant community initiatives started in prior FOSS4G Birds of a Feather sessions.

'''Code Sprint''': The weekend after FOSS4G is reserved for the Hackers' Code Sprint. Hackers will be locked in a basement with lots of bandwidth, pizzas and coke. (Well, maybe something better than that, but we don't want to spoil the mystical hacker image by describing it any differently.)

== Upcoming milestones ==

* 1 Jun 2009, Abstract submission deadline
* 13 Jul 2009, Presenters notified of acceptance for talks
* 31 Jul 2009, '''Author/Early registration deadline'''
* 14 Sep 2009, '''Completed program available on the wiki'''
* 20 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Workshop
* 21-23 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Presentations and Tutorials
* 24-25 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Code Sprint

== Media Sponsors ==
* Position Magazine: http://www.positionmag.com.au/
* Asian Surveying and Mapping Newsletter: http://www.asmmag.com
* Geoconnexions Magazine: http://www.geoconnexion.com/
* Directions Magazine: http://directionsmag.com/

----

For more information or to keep informed from the FOSS4G Organising Committee, join our email list or twitter feed at: http://2009.foss4g.org/contacts/

or contact:

Cameron Shorter, Chair of the FOSS4G Organising Committee and Geospatial Systems Architect at LISAsoft

tel +61-8570-5050

c a m e r o n . s h o r t e r @ l i s a s o f t . c o m

[[Category:FOSS4G2009]]
[[Category:FOSS4G]]

FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 7

2009-03-07T22:12:17Z

Wiki-Harleyp: /* FOSS4G 2009 Call for Abstracts */

= FOSS4G 2009 Call for Abstracts =

The Organising Committee would like to welcome all interested participants to submit abstracts for presentations for the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial conference (FOSS4G), being held in Sydney, Australia October 20-23. FOSS4G offers participants an opportunity to learn from and share your knowledge, experience and ideas with a group of like minded individuals representing a wide array of industries, governments, technologies and nationalities.

Presentations are open to all those interested and will comprise a 30 minute slot which includes hand-over, introductions and 5 minutes for questions. Presentations will be selected which have a strong "Open Geospatial" theme to them. The committee is looking for a mixture of technical and non-technical presentations.

In deference to the conference theme of “User Driven,” topics of particular interest are:
* Case Studies: Share your experiences implementing and using open source geospatial. What problems were you attempting to solve? How successful were you and at what cost? What can others learn from your experience? How did you sell the Open Source concept to management? How did you present the cost/benefit scenarios and build the business case?
* Collaboration: Have you faced the trials of collaboration between organisations, remote offices or team members scattered to the far corners of the globe? What steps have you taken to improve the efficiency of your collaboration: open or de facto standards, decentralised data collection, or the myriad of solutions that only you could describe?
* Security: Securing you data while ensuring ease of access to those select few within your inner circle can be a daunting task. Share you successes, and your failures, with others facing their own security issues.
* Developments: Have you created a shiny new widget that is about to change the world? Or has your time-honoured project finally completed a much requested feature or two? Bring us up to date with the new developments in your open source geospatial software products with all the latest buzz: what does it do, how are people using it and what is in store for the next year.

For more information, visit the FOSS4G site at http://2009.foss4g.org/presentations/

The deadline for presentation submissions is June 1st 2009. See you in Sydney.

==FOSS4G 2009 Highlights==
'''The Climate Challenge Integration Plugfest (CCIP)''': FOSS4G will launch the OGC's Climate Challenge Integration Plugfest (CCIP), which demonstrates standards based interoperability between Open Source and Proprietary geospatial applications. It consists of a server with multiple virtual machines, each installed with geospatial applications offering standards based web services. All web services will demonstrate a common dataset, and will be accessed by a range of geospatial client applications installed on client computers. http://external.opengis.org/twiki_public/bin/view/ClimateChallenge2009/WebHome

Presenters are encouraged (but not mandated) to make use of scenarios and on-site data from the Climate Challenge Integration Plugfest (CCIP). This is especially important as demand for access to data over the internet is expected to be high, and Australia has notoriously slow connections to the outside world.

'''FOSS4G Live DVD''': LiveDVDs, based on the Xubuntu operating system and including Geospatial Open Source Software, will be given to all delegates. Users can boot a Live DVD on their computer and trial the software without installing or effecting the existing system. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc

'''Installfest''': The Installfest will give delegates the opportunity to meet in a common area and install a wide variety of FOSS software on their laptops, EEPC or any other system they care to bring in. Community members will be around to assist with any troubles and provide help and insight into the software. The install fest will take place after workshops on the first day.

'''Workshops and Tutorials''': Workshops and Tutorials allow presenters to lead attendees through applications, integration solutions, or other topics in an interactive environment. Half-day workshops (3 hours) will be held in computer rooms on the first day. Tutorials (90 minutes) will be held in standard presentation rooms, run concurrently with presentations during the third and fourth days.

'''Presentations''': The meat of the conference are it's presentations. Drawing on a huge community of local, regional and international experts we will discuss some of the most current and poignant topics in the industry today.

'''Birds of a Feather''': Rooms have been set aside for semi-organised meetings between like minded groups. Some prominant community initiatives started in prior FOSS4G Birds of a Feather sessions.

'''Code Sprint''': The weekend after FOSS4G is reserved for the Hackers' Code Sprint. Hackers will be locked in a basement with lots of bandwidth, pizzas and coke. (Well, maybe something better than that, but we don't want to spoil the mystical hacker image by describing it any differently.)

== Upcoming milestones ==

* 9 Mar 2009, '''Call for Abstracts opens'''
* 30 Mar 2009, Notification of acceptance for workshops/tutorials
* 13 Apr 2009, '''Registration for conference and tutorials opens'''
* 1 Jun 2009, Abstract submission deadline
* 13 Jul 2009, Presenters notified of acceptance for talks
* 31 Jul 2009, '''Author/Early registration deadline'''
* 14 Sep 2009, '''Completed program available on the wiki'''
* 20 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Workshop
* 21-23 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Presentations and Tutorials
* 24-25 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Code Sprint

----

For information about this announcement, contact:

FOSS4G Organising Committee: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009#Contact_Us

or,

Cameron Shorter, Chair of the FOSS4G Organising Committee and Geospatial Systems Architect at LISAsoft

tel +61-8570-5050

c a m e r o n . s h o r t e r @ l i s a s o f t . c o m

[[Category:FOSS4G2009]]
[[Category:FOSS4G]]

FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 7

2009-03-07T21:58:57Z

Wiki-Harleyp: /* FOSS4G 2009 Call for Abstracts */

= FOSS4G 2009 Call for Abstracts =

The Organising Committee would like to welcome all interested participants to submit abstracts for presentations for the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial conference (FOSS4G), being held in Sydney, Australia October 20-23. FOSS4G offers participants an opportunity to learn from and share your knowledge, experience and ideas with a group of like minded individuals representing a wide array of industries, governments, technologies and nationalities.

Presentations are open to all those interested and will comprise a 30 minute slot which includes hand-over, introductions and 5 minutes for questions. Presentations will be selected which have a strong "Open Geospatial" theme to them. The committee is looking for a mixture of technical and non-technical presentations.

In deference to the conference theme of “User Driven,” topics of particular interest are:
* Case Studies: Share your experiences implementing and using open source geospatial. What problems were you attempting to solve? How successful were you and at what cost? What can others learn from your experience? How did you sell the Open Source concept to management? How did you present the cost/benefit scenarios and build the business case?
* Collaboration: Have you faced the trials of collaboration between organisations, remote offices or team members scattered to the far corners of the globe (come on, we all know it isn't a sphere)? What steps have you taken to improve the efficiency of your collaboration: open or de facto standards, decentralised data collection, or the myriad of solutions that only you could describe?
* Security: Securing you data while ensuring ease of access to those select few within your inner circle can be a daunting task. Share you successes, and your failures, with others facing their own security issues.
* Developments: Have you created a shiny new widget that is about to change the world? Or has your time-honoured project finally completed a much requested feature or two? Bring us up to date with the new developments in your open source geospatial software products with all the latest buzz: what does it do, how are people using it and what is in store for the next year.

For more information, visit the FOSS4G site at http://2009.foss4g.org/presentations/

The deadline for presentation submissions is June 1st 2009. See you in Sydney.

==FOSS4G 2009 Highlights==
'''The Climate Challenge Integration Plugfest (CCIP)''': FOSS4G will launch the OGC's Climate Challenge Integration Plugfest (CCIP), which demonstrates standards based interoperability between Open Source and Proprietary geospatial applications. It consists of a server with multiple virtual machines, each installed with geospatial applications offering standards based web services. All web services will demonstrate a common dataset, and will be accessed by a range of geospatial client applications installed on client computers. http://external.opengis.org/twiki_public/bin/view/ClimateChallenge2009/WebHome

Presenters are encouraged (but not mandated) to make use of scenarios and on-site data from the Climate Challenge Integration Plugfest (CCIP). This is especially important as demand for access to data over the internet is expected to be high, and Australia has notoriously slow connections to the outside world.

'''FOSS4G Live DVD''': LiveDVDs, based on the Xubuntu operating system and including Geospatial Open Source Software, will be given to all delegates. Users can boot a Live DVD on their computer and trial the software without installing or effecting the existing system. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc

'''Installfest''': The Installfest will give delegates the opportunity to meet in a common area and install a wide variety of FOSS software on their laptops, EEPC or any other system they care to bring in. Community members will be around to assist with any troubles and provide help and insight into the software. The install fest will take place after workshops on the first day.

'''Workshops and Tutorials''': Workshops and Tutorials allow presenters to lead attendees through applications, integration solutions, or other topics in an interactive environment. Half-day workshops (3 hours) will be held in computer rooms on the first day. Tutorials (90 minutes) will be held in standard presentation rooms, run concurrently with presentations during the third and fourth days.

'''Presentations''': The meat of the conference are it's presentations. Drawing on a huge community of local, regional and international experts we will discuss some of the most current and poignant topics in the industry today.

'''Birds of a Feather''': Rooms have been set aside for semi-organised meetings between like minded groups. Some prominant community initiatives started in prior FOSS4G Birds of a Feather sessions.

'''Code Sprint''': The weekend after FOSS4G is reserved for the Hackers' Code Sprint. Hackers will be locked in a basement with lots of bandwidth, pizzas and coke. (Well, maybe something better than that, but we don't want to spoil the mystical hacker image by describing it any differently.)

== Upcoming milestones ==

* 9 Mar 2009, '''Call for Abstracts opens'''
* 30 Mar 2009, Notification of acceptance for workshops/tutorials
* 13 Apr 2009, '''Registration for conference and tutorials opens'''
* 1 Jun 2009, Abstract submission deadline
* 13 Jul 2009, Presenters notified of acceptance for talks
* 31 Jul 2009, '''Author/Early registration deadline'''
* 14 Sep 2009, '''Completed program available on the wiki'''
* 20 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Workshop
* 21-23 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Presentations and Tutorials
* 24-25 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Code Sprint

----

For information about this announcement, contact:

FOSS4G Organising Committee: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009#Contact_Us

or,

Cameron Shorter, Chair of the FOSS4G Organising Committee and Geospatial Systems Architect at LISAsoft

tel +61-8570-5050

c a m e r o n . s h o r t e r @ l i s a s o f t . c o m

[[Category:FOSS4G2009]]
[[Category:FOSS4G]]

FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 7

2009-03-07T21:35:13Z

Wiki-Harleyp: /* FOSS4G 2009 Call for Abstracts */

= FOSS4G 2009 Call for Abstracts =

The Organising Committee would like to welcome all interested participants to submit abstracts for presentations for the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial conference (FOSS4G), being held in Sydney, Australia October 20-23. FOSS4G offers participants an opportunity to learn from and share your knowledge, experience and ideas with a group of like minded individuals representing a wide array of industries, governments, technologies and nationalities.

Presentations are open to all those interested and will comprise a 30 minute slot which includes hand-over, introductions and 5 minutes for question and answer sessions at the end (i.e. 20-25 minutes for your presentation). All selected presentations will cover the use or development of open source geospatial software. The committee is looking for a mixture of technical and non-technical presentations.

In deference to the conference theme of “User Driven,” topics of particular interest are:
* Case Studies: Share your experiences implementing and using open source geospatial. What problems were you attempting to solve? How successful were you and at what cost? What can others learn from your experience? How did you sell the Open Source concept to management? How did you present the cost/benefit scenarios and build the business case?
* Collaboration: Have you faced the trials of collaboration between organisations, remote offices or team members scattered to the far corners of the globe (come on, we all know it isn't a sphere)? What steps have you taken to improve the efficiency of your collaboration: open or de facto standards, decentralised data collection, or the myriad of solutions that only you could describe?
* Security: Securing you data while ensuring ease of access to those select few within your inner circle can be a daunting task. Share you successes, and your failures, with others facing their own security issues.
* Developments: Have you created a shiny new widget that is about to change the world? Or has your time-honoured project finally completed a much requested feature or two? Bring us up to date with the new developments in your open source geospatial software products with all the latest buzz: what does it do, how are people using it and what is in store for the next year.

For more information, visit the FOSS4G site at http://2009.foss4g.org/presentations/

The deadline for presentation submissions is June 1st 2009. See you in Sydney.

==FOSS4G 2009 Highlights==
'''The Climate Challenge Integration Plugfest (CCIP)''': FOSS4G will launch the OGC's Climate Challenge Integration Plugfest (CCIP), which demonstrates standards based interoperability between Open Source and Proprietary geospatial applications. It consists of a server with multiple virtual machines, each installed with geospatial applications offering standards based web services. All web services will demonstrate a common dataset, and will be accessed by a range of geospatial client applications installed on client computers. http://external.opengis.org/twiki_public/bin/view/ClimateChallenge2009/WebHome

Presenters are encouraged (but not mandated) to make use of scenarios and on-site data from the Climate Challenge Integration Plugfest (CCIP). This is especially important as demand for access to data over the internet is expected to be high, and Australia has notoriously slow connections to the outside world.

'''FOSS4G Live DVD''': LiveDVDs, based on the Xubuntu operating system and including Geospatial Open Source Software, will be given to all delegates. Users can boot a Live DVD on their computer and trial the software without installing or effecting the existing system. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc

'''Installfest''': The Installfest will give delegates the opportunity to meet in a common area and install a wide variety of FOSS software on their laptops, EEPC or any other system they care to bring in. Community members will be around to assist with any troubles and provide help and insight into the software. The install fest will take place after workshops on the first day.

'''Workshops and Tutorials''': Workshops and Tutorials allow presenters to lead attendees through applications, integration solutions, or other topics in an interactive environment. Half-day workshops (3 hours) will be held in computer rooms on the first day. Tutorials (90 minutes) will be held in standard presentation rooms, run concurrently with presentations during the third and fourth days.

'''Presentations''': The meat of the conference are it's presentations. Drawing on a huge community of local, regional and international experts we will discuss some of the most current and poignant topics in the industry today.

'''Birds of a Feather''': Rooms have been set aside for semi-organised meetings between like minded groups. Some prominant community initiatives started in prior FOSS4G Birds of a Feather sessions.

'''Code Sprint''': The weekend after FOSS4G is reserved for the Hackers' Code Sprint. Hackers will be locked in a basement with lots of bandwidth, pizzas and coke. (Well, maybe something better than that, but we don't want to spoil the mystical hacker image by describing it any differently.)

== Upcoming milestones ==

* 9 Mar 2009, '''Call for Abstracts opens'''
* 30 Mar 2009, Notification of acceptance for workshops/tutorials
* 13 Apr 2009, '''Registration for conference and tutorials opens'''
* 1 Jun 2009, Abstract submission deadline
* 13 Jul 2009, Presenters notified of acceptance for talks
* 31 Jul 2009, '''Author/Early registration deadline'''
* 14 Sep 2009, '''Completed program available on the wiki'''
* 20 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Workshop
* 21-23 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Presentations and Tutorials
* 24-25 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Code Sprint

----

For information about this announcement, contact:

FOSS4G Organising Committee: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009#Contact_Us

or,

Cameron Shorter, Chair of the FOSS4G Organising Committee and Geospatial Systems Architect at LISAsoft

tel +61-8570-5050

c a m e r o n . s h o r t e r @ l i s a s o f t . c o m

[[Category:FOSS4G2009]]
[[Category:FOSS4G]]

FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 7

2009-03-07T21:24:42Z

Wiki-Harleyp: /* FOSS4G 2009 Call for Abstracts */

= FOSS4G 2009 Call for Abstracts =

The Organising Committee would like to welcome all interested participants to submit abstracts for presentations for the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial conference (FOSS4G), being held in Sydney, Australia October 20-23. FOSS4G offers participants an opportunity to learn from and share your knowledge, experience and ideas with a group of like minded individuals representing a wide array of industries, governments, technologies and nationalities.

Presentations are open to all those interested and will provide 25 minutes of talk time with 5 minutes for question and answer sessions at the end. All selected presentations will cover the use or development of open source geospatial software. The committee is looking for a mixture of technical and non-technical presentations.

In deference to the conference theme of “User Driven,” topics of particular interest are:
* Case Studies: Share your experiences implementing and using open source geospatial. What problems were you attempting to solve? How successful were you and at what cost? What can others learn from your experience? How did you sell the Open Source concept to management? How did you present the cost/benefit scenarios and build the business case?
* Collaboration: Have you faced the trials of collaboration between organisations, remote offices or team members scattered to the far corners of the globe (come on, we all know it isn't a sphere)? What steps have you taken to improve the efficiency of your collaboration: open or de facto standards, decentralised data collection, or the myriad of solutions that only you could describe?
* Security: Securing you data while ensuring ease of access to those select few within your inner circle can be a daunting task. Share you successes, and your failures, with others facing their own security issues.
* Developments: Have you created a shiny new widget that is about to change the world? Or has your time-honoured project finally completed a much requested feature or two? Bring us up to date with the new developments in your open source geospatial software products with all the latest buzz: what does it do, how are people using it and what is in store for the next year.

For more information, visit the FOSS4G site at http://2009.foss4g.org/presentations/

The deadline for presentation submissions is June 1st 2009. See you in Sydney.

==FOSS4G 2009 Highlights==
'''The Climate Challenge Integration Plugfest (CCIP)''': FOSS4G will launch the OGC's Climate Challenge Integration Plugfest (CCIP), which demonstrates standards based interoperability between Open Source and Proprietary geospatial applications. It consists of a server with multiple virtual machines, each installed with geospatial applications offering standards based web services. All web services will demonstrate a common dataset, and will be accessed by a range of geospatial client applications installed on client computers. http://external.opengis.org/twiki_public/bin/view/ClimateChallenge2009/WebHome

Presenters are encouraged (but not mandated) to make use of scenarios and on-site data from the Climate Challenge Integration Plugfest (CCIP). This is especially important as demand for access to data over the internet is expected to be high, and Australia has notoriously slow connections to the outside world.

'''FOSS4G Live DVD''': LiveDVDs, based on the Xubuntu operating system and including Geospatial Open Source Software, will be given to all delegates. Users can boot a Live DVD on their computer and trial the software without installing or effecting the existing system. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc

'''Installfest''': The Installfest will give delegates the opportunity to meet in a common area and install a wide variety of FOSS software on their laptops, EEPC or any other system they care to bring in. Community members will be around to assist with any troubles and provide help and insight into the software. The install fest will take place after workshops on the first day.

'''Workshops and Tutorials''': Workshops and Tutorials allow presenters to lead attendees through applications, integration solutions, or other topics in an interactive environment. Half-day workshops (3 hours) will be held in computer rooms on the first day. Tutorials (90 minutes) will be held in standard presentation rooms, run concurrently with presentations during the third and fourth days.

'''Presentations''': The meat of the conference are it's presentations. Drawing on a huge community of local, regional and international experts we will discuss some of the most current and poignant topics in the industry today.

'''Birds of a Feather''': Rooms have been set aside for semi-organised meetings between like minded groups. Some prominant community initiatives started in prior FOSS4G Birds of a Feather sessions.

'''Code Sprint''': The weekend after FOSS4G is reserved for the Hackers' Code Sprint. Hackers will be locked in a basement with lots of bandwidth, pizzas and coke. (Well, maybe something better than that, but we don't want to spoil the mystical hacker image by describing it any differently.)

== Upcoming milestones ==

* 9 Mar 2009, '''Call for Abstracts opens'''
* 30 Mar 2009, Notification of acceptance for workshops/tutorials
* 13 Apr 2009, '''Registration for conference and tutorials opens'''
* 1 Jun 2009, Abstract submission deadline
* 13 Jul 2009, Presenters notified of acceptance for talks
* 31 Jul 2009, '''Author/Early registration deadline'''
* 14 Sep 2009, '''Completed program available on the wiki'''
* 20 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Workshop
* 21-23 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Presentations and Tutorials
* 24-25 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Code Sprint

----

For information about this announcement, contact:

FOSS4G Organising Committee: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009#Contact_Us

or,

Cameron Shorter, Chair of the FOSS4G Organising Committee and Geospatial Systems Architect at LISAsoft

tel +61-8570-5050

c a m e r o n . s h o r t e r @ l i s a s o f t . c o m

[[Category:FOSS4G2009]]
[[Category:FOSS4G]]

FOSS4G 2009 Marketing Plan

2009-02-23T23:28:19Z

Wiki-Harleyp: /* Web Marketing */

Back to [[FOSS4G 2009]]...

=Summary=
'''Tuesday 17 - Saturday 21 November 2009'''

'''Sydney, Australia'''

FOSS4G, the annual conference attracting the best of Geospatial Open Source users and developers, will meet in Sydney, Australia in 2009. The conference theme, ''User Driven'', will extend the ''gathering of the tribes'' vibe to embrace users and users' case studies.

Specific conference aims:
* To encourage the adoption of Open Source Geospatial Software.
** To facilitate the meeting of the Open Source Geospatial tribes and sharing of information.
** To provide a forum for Open Source Geospatial projects to showcase their products to potential users.
** To allow Geospatial users to be educated in the latest Open Source Geospatial technologies, and practices.

This marketing document identifies key people likely to attend the FOSS4G conference, how to reach them, and what their motivations are for coming. Resulting from this analysis we should tweak our program to ensure it is attractive for our delegates, and focus our marketing efforts to ensure we reach interested delegates.

To brush up on the basics of a Marketing Plan, I suggest skimming over [http://www.quickmba.com/marketing/plan/ Quick MBA Marketing Plan].

=Delegate Demographics=
''This section aims to profile different types of delegates. It should include:''
* ''Description''
* ''Expected percentage of delegates''
* ''What they want''
* ''How to reach them''
* ''Price sensitivity and spending criteria''

==OSGeo Developers (tribes)==
To date, OSGeo has been heralded as the "international gathering of the tribes", each tribe representing a different Open Source project.

These hard core software developers come from around the world.

Contact: Various OSGeo email lists, in particular (discuss A T lists.osgeo.org).

==Geospatial sections of Government departments in Australia==
Australian Geospatial conferences like the Spatial Sciences Institute bi-annual conference draw ~ 800 delegates mainly from Government, Mining and the Utilities sectors. Government sectors have already shown an interest in Geospatial Open Source, and this conference in particular.

Contact: Bruce Bannerman.

==Geospatial sections of Government departments in New Zealand==
Ditto.

Contact: Liz Kolster (?)

==Geospatial sections of Government departments in Asia/Pacific region==

==Australia/New Zealand Open Source Community==
The annual Australian [[http://www.linux.org.au/LCA Linux conference]] attracts ~ 800 people.

The annual [[http://www.osdc.com.au/ Open Source Developers Conference]] attracts ~ 350 people.

These local Open Source developers will likely be interested to learn how they can deploy Geospatial Open Source. They would probably be interested in a general overview of topics, and specific lab sessions where they can get their hands dirty.

Key contact point: Jeff Waugh and Pia Waugh, who will be able to forward onto various email lists, like the Open Source Industry Australia (OSIA) and various Linux Users Groups.

The [http://nzoss.org.nz/ NZ Open Source Society] promotes the use of OSS in New Zealand, and has good contacts into government, business, and the various developer/user communities. Key contact point: Don Christie

==Education==
There has been reasonable interest from Universities and TAFE colleges at Australian geospatial conferences, although it is unclear yet whether there is enough interest to draw delegates to the conference.

'''Cooperative Research Centre - Spatial Information''' which is a consortium of a number of universities, government departments and private companies: [http://www.crcsi.com.au/]

==Others==
'''If you know people in any of these area then split that area out into another section'''

Folks in environmental, horticulture, zoology, anthropology, archaelogy, geology, geophysics, engineering, demographics, land management, forestry, aquaculture, meteorology, museums

=2007 Sponsors=
As identified by Paul Ramsey:

'''SPONSORS Fee in US Fee in CAD'''
*Autodesk Inc. - Platinum 25,000.00 28,451.12
*DM Solutions Group - Gold 10,000.00 11,603.75
*ESRI Sponsorship - Silver 5,000.00 5,688.00
*GeoConnections 15,000.00 14,910.00 (local)
*Google Sponsorship - Gold 10,000.00 11,364.62
* ILMB (Integrated Land Management Bureau) 10,000.00 11,608.75 (local)
*Leica Geosystems - Gold 10,000.00 11,251.74
*Orkney, Inc. - Silver 5,000.00 5,191.91
*Refractions Research - Gold 10,000.00 11,603.75
*Safe Software Inc.- Gold 10,000.00 11,603.00
*Sierra Systems Group Inc. 5,000.00 5,300.81 (local)
* Total Sponsorship Payment Received 115,000.00 128,577.45

EXHIBITORS Fee in US Fee in CAD
*CamptoCamp - Stephanie Debayle 2,500.00 2,660.37
*Natural Resources Canada - Brian Low 1,250.00 1,452.00 (local)
*Open Planning Project - Chris Holmes 1,250.00 1,303.37
*Timberline Natural Resource Group - Will Cadell 2,500.00 2,664.01 (local)
Total Exhibitor Payments Received 8,079.75

Please note that this is *NOT* a useful list for solicitation
purposes, over half of the entries are organizations with little
interest in sponsoring an event on the other side of the world.
A (local) tag is next to organisations unlikely to sponsor.

=Market Segmentation - Sponsors=
==IT Companies==
===Large===
* Autodesk
* Google
* Microsoft
* IBM
* Yahoo
* HP
* Nokia
* Sun Microsystems

===Small===

==Surveying Companies==
==Geomatics Companies==
==Engineering Consulants==
==Media partners==
===Magazines===
GPS World ([[user:sab]] made initial contact with Don Jewell, GPS World's Military & Government Editor. They are interested in sending some delegates to cover the event)

Position Magazine have offered free advertising in return for free tickets to FOSS4G. Contact: Wendy Chapman and Jon Fairall.

===Publishers===

=Related Conferences=
* 17-19 July 2008, Surfers Paradise [[http://www.qsc2008.com.au/ SSI Qld]] ~ 300 people from Qld Geospatial industry.
* 1-3 Sep 2008, Auckland [http://www.cartography.org.nz/geocart2008/ GeoCart'2008 Cartography Conference] biannual, attracts ~ 200 people from geospatial education/research and industry.
* 29 Sep - 3 Oct 2008, Cape Town, South Africa [[http://conference.osgeo.org/foss4g/2008 FOSS4G 2008]]
* November 2, 2008, [http://www.osgeo.jp/foss4g2008-in-tokyo/ FOSS4G 2008 Tokyo (Tokyo FOSUFOJI 2008)]
* November 7-8, 2008, [http://www.osgeo.jp/foss4g2008-in-osaka/ FOSS4G 2008 Osaka (Osaka FOSUFOJI 2008)]
* Nov 2008, Canberra: Geospatial in Government conference being considered. See Ben Searle.
* 02-05 Dec 2008, Sydney, Australia: [[http://www.osdc.com.au/ Open Source Developers Conference]] attracts ~ 350 people. General Open Source. LISAsoft will be giving a presentation on Geospatial Open Source and can plug FOSS4G.
* 19-20 Jan 2009, Hobart, Australia: [[http://www.linux.org.au/LCA Linux conference]] attracts ~ 800 people. General Open Source.
* 17.-19 March 2009, Hannover, Germany: [[http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/wiki/Main_Page German Language Open Source Geospatial Conference]]
* 15 - 15 June 2009, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, [[http://www.gsdi.org/GSDI11/ GSDI 11 World Conference]] ~ 600 people from 40 countries. Global Spatial Data Infrastructure.
* 15 - 16 June 2009, Canberra, Australia, [[http://www.osdm.gov.au/Events/220.aspx spatial@gov Conference]]. Probably attract 50 to 150 people from Australian Spatial Government sector.
* 22 June, Nottingham, United Kingdom, [[http://www.opensourcegis.org.uk Open Source GIS Conference]].
* 8-10 July, 2009, Ecole Centrales De Nates, France, [[http://www.ogrs2009.org Open Source Research Symposium]]
* 22 - 24 Sept 2009, Karlsruhe, Germany, [[http://www.intergeo.de Intergeo]]. Europe's largest event for geoinformation and land management.
* 28 Sep - 2 Oct 2009 Adelaide: [[http://www.spatialsciences.org.au/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=90&year=2009&month=09&day=28&Itemid=67 Spatial Sciences Institute Bi-annual]] attracts ~ 900 people from Government, mining, utilities from Australia and around the region.
* '''20 - 23 October 2009 Sydney: FOSS4G'''
* 26-29 Oct 2009, Kampala, Uganda. FOSS4G track at [http://www.africagis2009.org AfricaGIS 2009]. Largest GIS conference series in Africa.
* 4 - 6 November 2009 Perth: [[http://www.walis.wa.gov.au/forum WALIS]] attracts ~ 500 people from Government, mining, utilities mainly from West Australia.
* 23 November - 8 December 2009 Sydney (UNSW) : [[http://www.geocomputation.org/ Geocomputation conference]] at UNSW, Sydney. International attendees like to have a back-to-back conference so they can justify coming to both.
* 1 - 5 December 2008: [[http://au.autodesk.com/event/speaker_cfp/ Autodesk University]] Autodesk are a key sponsor, and their employees won't be able to make other conferences during this time.

=Email List=

Here is a collection of list groups and posters, OS community leaders etc that we should be marketing to. Please feel free to add to this list. It was initially based on the FOSS4G2007 email list.

=Web Marketing=

Placing banner adds on some of the high-traffic open source project sites is a huge source of referrals. This section will keep track of who we have contacted and who has agreed to place banner adds on their sites.

The following sites have committed to doing banner placement:

=Industry Event Calendars=

We have been adding ourselves to industry event calendars wherever possible. So far, we are on:

=Private Data=
Specific private data about costs are initially being stored on private wiki pages at [[https://extranet.lisasoft.com/wiki/index.php/Foss4g-sydney-private_Marketing_Plan]]. This data is available to the FOSS4G2009 committee and Tour Hosts, our Professional Conference Organisor.

If you have a need to access this information, contact Cameron DOT Shorter AT Lisasoft DOT com, (who will forward onto helpdesk AT a2end.com).

[[Category:FOSS4G2009]]

FOSS4G 2009 Marketing Plan

2009-02-23T23:27:04Z

Wiki-Harleyp: /* Web Marketing */

Back to [[FOSS4G 2009]]...

=Summary=
'''Tuesday 17 - Saturday 21 November 2009'''

'''Sydney, Australia'''

FOSS4G, the annual conference attracting the best of Geospatial Open Source users and developers, will meet in Sydney, Australia in 2009. The conference theme, ''User Driven'', will extend the ''gathering of the tribes'' vibe to embrace users and users' case studies.

Specific conference aims:
* To encourage the adoption of Open Source Geospatial Software.
** To facilitate the meeting of the Open Source Geospatial tribes and sharing of information.
** To provide a forum for Open Source Geospatial projects to showcase their products to potential users.
** To allow Geospatial users to be educated in the latest Open Source Geospatial technologies, and practices.

This marketing document identifies key people likely to attend the FOSS4G conference, how to reach them, and what their motivations are for coming. Resulting from this analysis we should tweak our program to ensure it is attractive for our delegates, and focus our marketing efforts to ensure we reach interested delegates.

To brush up on the basics of a Marketing Plan, I suggest skimming over [http://www.quickmba.com/marketing/plan/ Quick MBA Marketing Plan].

=Delegate Demographics=
''This section aims to profile different types of delegates. It should include:''
* ''Description''
* ''Expected percentage of delegates''
* ''What they want''
* ''How to reach them''
* ''Price sensitivity and spending criteria''

==OSGeo Developers (tribes)==
To date, OSGeo has been heralded as the "international gathering of the tribes", each tribe representing a different Open Source project.

These hard core software developers come from around the world.

Contact: Various OSGeo email lists, in particular (discuss A T lists.osgeo.org).

==Geospatial sections of Government departments in Australia==
Australian Geospatial conferences like the Spatial Sciences Institute bi-annual conference draw ~ 800 delegates mainly from Government, Mining and the Utilities sectors. Government sectors have already shown an interest in Geospatial Open Source, and this conference in particular.

Contact: Bruce Bannerman.

==Geospatial sections of Government departments in New Zealand==
Ditto.

Contact: Liz Kolster (?)

==Geospatial sections of Government departments in Asia/Pacific region==

==Australia/New Zealand Open Source Community==
The annual Australian [[http://www.linux.org.au/LCA Linux conference]] attracts ~ 800 people.

The annual [[http://www.osdc.com.au/ Open Source Developers Conference]] attracts ~ 350 people.

These local Open Source developers will likely be interested to learn how they can deploy Geospatial Open Source. They would probably be interested in a general overview of topics, and specific lab sessions where they can get their hands dirty.

Key contact point: Jeff Waugh and Pia Waugh, who will be able to forward onto various email lists, like the Open Source Industry Australia (OSIA) and various Linux Users Groups.

The [http://nzoss.org.nz/ NZ Open Source Society] promotes the use of OSS in New Zealand, and has good contacts into government, business, and the various developer/user communities. Key contact point: Don Christie

==Education==
There has been reasonable interest from Universities and TAFE colleges at Australian geospatial conferences, although it is unclear yet whether there is enough interest to draw delegates to the conference.

'''Cooperative Research Centre - Spatial Information''' which is a consortium of a number of universities, government departments and private companies: [http://www.crcsi.com.au/]

==Others==
'''If you know people in any of these area then split that area out into another section'''

Folks in environmental, horticulture, zoology, anthropology, archaelogy, geology, geophysics, engineering, demographics, land management, forestry, aquaculture, meteorology, museums

=2007 Sponsors=
As identified by Paul Ramsey:

'''SPONSORS Fee in US Fee in CAD'''
*Autodesk Inc. - Platinum 25,000.00 28,451.12
*DM Solutions Group - Gold 10,000.00 11,603.75
*ESRI Sponsorship - Silver 5,000.00 5,688.00
*GeoConnections 15,000.00 14,910.00 (local)
*Google Sponsorship - Gold 10,000.00 11,364.62
* ILMB (Integrated Land Management Bureau) 10,000.00 11,608.75 (local)
*Leica Geosystems - Gold 10,000.00 11,251.74
*Orkney, Inc. - Silver 5,000.00 5,191.91
*Refractions Research - Gold 10,000.00 11,603.75
*Safe Software Inc.- Gold 10,000.00 11,603.00
*Sierra Systems Group Inc. 5,000.00 5,300.81 (local)
* Total Sponsorship Payment Received 115,000.00 128,577.45

EXHIBITORS Fee in US Fee in CAD
*CamptoCamp - Stephanie Debayle 2,500.00 2,660.37
*Natural Resources Canada - Brian Low 1,250.00 1,452.00 (local)
*Open Planning Project - Chris Holmes 1,250.00 1,303.37
*Timberline Natural Resource Group - Will Cadell 2,500.00 2,664.01 (local)
Total Exhibitor Payments Received 8,079.75

Please note that this is *NOT* a useful list for solicitation
purposes, over half of the entries are organizations with little
interest in sponsoring an event on the other side of the world.
A (local) tag is next to organisations unlikely to sponsor.

=Market Segmentation - Sponsors=
==IT Companies==
===Large===
* Autodesk
* Google
* Microsoft
* IBM
* Yahoo
* HP
* Nokia
* Sun Microsystems

===Small===

==Surveying Companies==
==Geomatics Companies==
==Engineering Consulants==
==Media partners==
===Magazines===
GPS World ([[user:sab]] made initial contact with Don Jewell, GPS World's Military & Government Editor. They are interested in sending some delegates to cover the event)

Position Magazine have offered free advertising in return for free tickets to FOSS4G. Contact: Wendy Chapman and Jon Fairall.

===Publishers===

=Related Conferences=
* 17-19 July 2008, Surfers Paradise [[http://www.qsc2008.com.au/ SSI Qld]] ~ 300 people from Qld Geospatial industry.
* 1-3 Sep 2008, Auckland [http://www.cartography.org.nz/geocart2008/ GeoCart'2008 Cartography Conference] biannual, attracts ~ 200 people from geospatial education/research and industry.
* 29 Sep - 3 Oct 2008, Cape Town, South Africa [[http://conference.osgeo.org/foss4g/2008 FOSS4G 2008]]
* November 2, 2008, [http://www.osgeo.jp/foss4g2008-in-tokyo/ FOSS4G 2008 Tokyo (Tokyo FOSUFOJI 2008)]
* November 7-8, 2008, [http://www.osgeo.jp/foss4g2008-in-osaka/ FOSS4G 2008 Osaka (Osaka FOSUFOJI 2008)]
* Nov 2008, Canberra: Geospatial in Government conference being considered. See Ben Searle.
* 02-05 Dec 2008, Sydney, Australia: [[http://www.osdc.com.au/ Open Source Developers Conference]] attracts ~ 350 people. General Open Source. LISAsoft will be giving a presentation on Geospatial Open Source and can plug FOSS4G.
* 19-20 Jan 2009, Hobart, Australia: [[http://www.linux.org.au/LCA Linux conference]] attracts ~ 800 people. General Open Source.
* 17.-19 March 2009, Hannover, Germany: [[http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/wiki/Main_Page German Language Open Source Geospatial Conference]]
* 15 - 15 June 2009, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, [[http://www.gsdi.org/GSDI11/ GSDI 11 World Conference]] ~ 600 people from 40 countries. Global Spatial Data Infrastructure.
* 15 - 16 June 2009, Canberra, Australia, [[http://www.osdm.gov.au/Events/220.aspx spatial@gov Conference]]. Probably attract 50 to 150 people from Australian Spatial Government sector.
* 22 June, Nottingham, United Kingdom, [[http://www.opensourcegis.org.uk Open Source GIS Conference]].
* 8-10 July, 2009, Ecole Centrales De Nates, France, [[http://www.ogrs2009.org Open Source Research Symposium]]
* 22 - 24 Sept 2009, Karlsruhe, Germany, [[http://www.intergeo.de Intergeo]]. Europe's largest event for geoinformation and land management.
* 28 Sep - 2 Oct 2009 Adelaide: [[http://www.spatialsciences.org.au/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=90&year=2009&month=09&day=28&Itemid=67 Spatial Sciences Institute Bi-annual]] attracts ~ 900 people from Government, mining, utilities from Australia and around the region.
* '''20 - 23 October 2009 Sydney: FOSS4G'''
* 26-29 Oct 2009, Kampala, Uganda. FOSS4G track at [http://www.africagis2009.org AfricaGIS 2009]. Largest GIS conference series in Africa.
* 4 - 6 November 2009 Perth: [[http://www.walis.wa.gov.au/forum WALIS]] attracts ~ 500 people from Government, mining, utilities mainly from West Australia.
* 23 November - 8 December 2009 Sydney (UNSW) : [[http://www.geocomputation.org/ Geocomputation conference]] at UNSW, Sydney. International attendees like to have a back-to-back conference so they can justify coming to both.
* 1 - 5 December 2008: [[http://au.autodesk.com/event/speaker_cfp/ Autodesk University]] Autodesk are a key sponsor, and their employees won't be able to make other conferences during this time.

=Email List=

Here is a collection of list groups and posters, OS community leaders etc that we should be marketing to. Please feel free to add to this list. It was initially based on the FOSS4G2007 email list.

=Web Marketing=

Placing banner adds on some of the high-traffic open source project sites is a huge source of referrals. This section will keep track of who we have contacted and who has agreed to place banner adds on their sites.

The following sites have committed to doing banner placement:

=Private Data=
Specific private data about costs are initially being stored on private wiki pages at [[https://extranet.lisasoft.com/wiki/index.php/Foss4g-sydney-private_Marketing_Plan]]. This data is available to the FOSS4G2009 committee and Tour Hosts, our Professional Conference Organisor.

If you have a need to access this information, contact Cameron DOT Shorter AT Lisasoft DOT com, (who will forward onto helpdesk AT a2end.com).

[[Category:FOSS4G2009]]

FOSS4G 2009 Marketing Plan

2009-02-23T23:24:05Z

Wiki-Harleyp: /* Email List */

Back to [[FOSS4G 2009]]...

=Summary=
'''Tuesday 17 - Saturday 21 November 2009'''

'''Sydney, Australia'''

FOSS4G, the annual conference attracting the best of Geospatial Open Source users and developers, will meet in Sydney, Australia in 2009. The conference theme, ''User Driven'', will extend the ''gathering of the tribes'' vibe to embrace users and users' case studies.

Specific conference aims:
* To encourage the adoption of Open Source Geospatial Software.
** To facilitate the meeting of the Open Source Geospatial tribes and sharing of information.
** To provide a forum for Open Source Geospatial projects to showcase their products to potential users.
** To allow Geospatial users to be educated in the latest Open Source Geospatial technologies, and practices.

This marketing document identifies key people likely to attend the FOSS4G conference, how to reach them, and what their motivations are for coming. Resulting from this analysis we should tweak our program to ensure it is attractive for our delegates, and focus our marketing efforts to ensure we reach interested delegates.

To brush up on the basics of a Marketing Plan, I suggest skimming over [http://www.quickmba.com/marketing/plan/ Quick MBA Marketing Plan].

=Delegate Demographics=
''This section aims to profile different types of delegates. It should include:''
* ''Description''
* ''Expected percentage of delegates''
* ''What they want''
* ''How to reach them''
* ''Price sensitivity and spending criteria''

==OSGeo Developers (tribes)==
To date, OSGeo has been heralded as the "international gathering of the tribes", each tribe representing a different Open Source project.

These hard core software developers come from around the world.

Contact: Various OSGeo email lists, in particular (discuss A T lists.osgeo.org).

==Geospatial sections of Government departments in Australia==
Australian Geospatial conferences like the Spatial Sciences Institute bi-annual conference draw ~ 800 delegates mainly from Government, Mining and the Utilities sectors. Government sectors have already shown an interest in Geospatial Open Source, and this conference in particular.

Contact: Bruce Bannerman.

==Geospatial sections of Government departments in New Zealand==
Ditto.

Contact: Liz Kolster (?)

==Geospatial sections of Government departments in Asia/Pacific region==

==Australia/New Zealand Open Source Community==
The annual Australian [[http://www.linux.org.au/LCA Linux conference]] attracts ~ 800 people.

The annual [[http://www.osdc.com.au/ Open Source Developers Conference]] attracts ~ 350 people.

These local Open Source developers will likely be interested to learn how they can deploy Geospatial Open Source. They would probably be interested in a general overview of topics, and specific lab sessions where they can get their hands dirty.

Key contact point: Jeff Waugh and Pia Waugh, who will be able to forward onto various email lists, like the Open Source Industry Australia (OSIA) and various Linux Users Groups.

The [http://nzoss.org.nz/ NZ Open Source Society] promotes the use of OSS in New Zealand, and has good contacts into government, business, and the various developer/user communities. Key contact point: Don Christie

==Education==
There has been reasonable interest from Universities and TAFE colleges at Australian geospatial conferences, although it is unclear yet whether there is enough interest to draw delegates to the conference.

'''Cooperative Research Centre - Spatial Information''' which is a consortium of a number of universities, government departments and private companies: [http://www.crcsi.com.au/]

==Others==
'''If you know people in any of these area then split that area out into another section'''

Folks in environmental, horticulture, zoology, anthropology, archaelogy, geology, geophysics, engineering, demographics, land management, forestry, aquaculture, meteorology, museums

=2007 Sponsors=
As identified by Paul Ramsey:

'''SPONSORS Fee in US Fee in CAD'''
*Autodesk Inc. - Platinum 25,000.00 28,451.12
*DM Solutions Group - Gold 10,000.00 11,603.75
*ESRI Sponsorship - Silver 5,000.00 5,688.00
*GeoConnections 15,000.00 14,910.00 (local)
*Google Sponsorship - Gold 10,000.00 11,364.62
* ILMB (Integrated Land Management Bureau) 10,000.00 11,608.75 (local)
*Leica Geosystems - Gold 10,000.00 11,251.74
*Orkney, Inc. - Silver 5,000.00 5,191.91
*Refractions Research - Gold 10,000.00 11,603.75
*Safe Software Inc.- Gold 10,000.00 11,603.00
*Sierra Systems Group Inc. 5,000.00 5,300.81 (local)
* Total Sponsorship Payment Received 115,000.00 128,577.45

EXHIBITORS Fee in US Fee in CAD
*CamptoCamp - Stephanie Debayle 2,500.00 2,660.37
*Natural Resources Canada - Brian Low 1,250.00 1,452.00 (local)
*Open Planning Project - Chris Holmes 1,250.00 1,303.37
*Timberline Natural Resource Group - Will Cadell 2,500.00 2,664.01 (local)
Total Exhibitor Payments Received 8,079.75

Please note that this is *NOT* a useful list for solicitation
purposes, over half of the entries are organizations with little
interest in sponsoring an event on the other side of the world.
A (local) tag is next to organisations unlikely to sponsor.

=Market Segmentation - Sponsors=
==IT Companies==
===Large===
* Autodesk
* Google
* Microsoft
* IBM
* Yahoo
* HP
* Nokia
* Sun Microsystems

===Small===

==Surveying Companies==
==Geomatics Companies==
==Engineering Consulants==
==Media partners==
===Magazines===
GPS World ([[user:sab]] made initial contact with Don Jewell, GPS World's Military & Government Editor. They are interested in sending some delegates to cover the event)

Position Magazine have offered free advertising in return for free tickets to FOSS4G. Contact: Wendy Chapman and Jon Fairall.

===Publishers===

=Related Conferences=
* 17-19 July 2008, Surfers Paradise [[http://www.qsc2008.com.au/ SSI Qld]] ~ 300 people from Qld Geospatial industry.
* 1-3 Sep 2008, Auckland [http://www.cartography.org.nz/geocart2008/ GeoCart'2008 Cartography Conference] biannual, attracts ~ 200 people from geospatial education/research and industry.
* 29 Sep - 3 Oct 2008, Cape Town, South Africa [[http://conference.osgeo.org/foss4g/2008 FOSS4G 2008]]
* November 2, 2008, [http://www.osgeo.jp/foss4g2008-in-tokyo/ FOSS4G 2008 Tokyo (Tokyo FOSUFOJI 2008)]
* November 7-8, 2008, [http://www.osgeo.jp/foss4g2008-in-osaka/ FOSS4G 2008 Osaka (Osaka FOSUFOJI 2008)]
* Nov 2008, Canberra: Geospatial in Government conference being considered. See Ben Searle.
* 02-05 Dec 2008, Sydney, Australia: [[http://www.osdc.com.au/ Open Source Developers Conference]] attracts ~ 350 people. General Open Source. LISAsoft will be giving a presentation on Geospatial Open Source and can plug FOSS4G.
* 19-20 Jan 2009, Hobart, Australia: [[http://www.linux.org.au/LCA Linux conference]] attracts ~ 800 people. General Open Source.
* 17.-19 March 2009, Hannover, Germany: [[http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/wiki/Main_Page German Language Open Source Geospatial Conference]]
* 15 - 15 June 2009, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, [[http://www.gsdi.org/GSDI11/ GSDI 11 World Conference]] ~ 600 people from 40 countries. Global Spatial Data Infrastructure.
* 15 - 16 June 2009, Canberra, Australia, [[http://www.osdm.gov.au/Events/220.aspx spatial@gov Conference]]. Probably attract 50 to 150 people from Australian Spatial Government sector.
* 22 June, Nottingham, United Kingdom, [[http://www.opensourcegis.org.uk Open Source GIS Conference]].
* 8-10 July, 2009, Ecole Centrales De Nates, France, [[http://www.ogrs2009.org Open Source Research Symposium]]
* 22 - 24 Sept 2009, Karlsruhe, Germany, [[http://www.intergeo.de Intergeo]]. Europe's largest event for geoinformation and land management.
* 28 Sep - 2 Oct 2009 Adelaide: [[http://www.spatialsciences.org.au/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=90&year=2009&month=09&day=28&Itemid=67 Spatial Sciences Institute Bi-annual]] attracts ~ 900 people from Government, mining, utilities from Australia and around the region.
* '''20 - 23 October 2009 Sydney: FOSS4G'''
* 26-29 Oct 2009, Kampala, Uganda. FOSS4G track at [http://www.africagis2009.org AfricaGIS 2009]. Largest GIS conference series in Africa.
* 4 - 6 November 2009 Perth: [[http://www.walis.wa.gov.au/forum WALIS]] attracts ~ 500 people from Government, mining, utilities mainly from West Australia.
* 23 November - 8 December 2009 Sydney (UNSW) : [[http://www.geocomputation.org/ Geocomputation conference]] at UNSW, Sydney. International attendees like to have a back-to-back conference so they can justify coming to both.
* 1 - 5 December 2008: [[http://au.autodesk.com/event/speaker_cfp/ Autodesk University]] Autodesk are a key sponsor, and their employees won't be able to make other conferences during this time.

=Email List=

Here is a collection of list groups and posters, OS community leaders etc that we should be marketing to. Please feel free to add to this list. It was initially based on the FOSS4G2007 email list.

=Web Marketing=

=Private Data=
Specific private data about costs are initially being stored on private wiki pages at [[https://extranet.lisasoft.com/wiki/index.php/Foss4g-sydney-private_Marketing_Plan]]. This data is available to the FOSS4G2009 committee and Tour Hosts, our Professional Conference Organisor.

If you have a need to access this information, contact Cameron DOT Shorter AT Lisasoft DOT com, (who will forward onto helpdesk AT a2end.com).

[[Category:FOSS4G2009]]

FOSS4G 2009 Marketing Plan

2009-02-23T23:20:34Z

Wiki-Harleyp: /* Private Data */

Back to [[FOSS4G 2009]]...

=Summary=
'''Tuesday 17 - Saturday 21 November 2009'''

'''Sydney, Australia'''

FOSS4G, the annual conference attracting the best of Geospatial Open Source users and developers, will meet in Sydney, Australia in 2009. The conference theme, ''User Driven'', will extend the ''gathering of the tribes'' vibe to embrace users and users' case studies.

Specific conference aims:
* To encourage the adoption of Open Source Geospatial Software.
** To facilitate the meeting of the Open Source Geospatial tribes and sharing of information.
** To provide a forum for Open Source Geospatial projects to showcase their products to potential users.
** To allow Geospatial users to be educated in the latest Open Source Geospatial technologies, and practices.

This marketing document identifies key people likely to attend the FOSS4G conference, how to reach them, and what their motivations are for coming. Resulting from this analysis we should tweak our program to ensure it is attractive for our delegates, and focus our marketing efforts to ensure we reach interested delegates.

To brush up on the basics of a Marketing Plan, I suggest skimming over [http://www.quickmba.com/marketing/plan/ Quick MBA Marketing Plan].

=Delegate Demographics=
''This section aims to profile different types of delegates. It should include:''
* ''Description''
* ''Expected percentage of delegates''
* ''What they want''
* ''How to reach them''
* ''Price sensitivity and spending criteria''

==OSGeo Developers (tribes)==
To date, OSGeo has been heralded as the "international gathering of the tribes", each tribe representing a different Open Source project.

These hard core software developers come from around the world.

Contact: Various OSGeo email lists, in particular (discuss A T lists.osgeo.org).

==Geospatial sections of Government departments in Australia==
Australian Geospatial conferences like the Spatial Sciences Institute bi-annual conference draw ~ 800 delegates mainly from Government, Mining and the Utilities sectors. Government sectors have already shown an interest in Geospatial Open Source, and this conference in particular.

Contact: Bruce Bannerman.

==Geospatial sections of Government departments in New Zealand==
Ditto.

Contact: Liz Kolster (?)

==Geospatial sections of Government departments in Asia/Pacific region==

==Australia/New Zealand Open Source Community==
The annual Australian [[http://www.linux.org.au/LCA Linux conference]] attracts ~ 800 people.

The annual [[http://www.osdc.com.au/ Open Source Developers Conference]] attracts ~ 350 people.

These local Open Source developers will likely be interested to learn how they can deploy Geospatial Open Source. They would probably be interested in a general overview of topics, and specific lab sessions where they can get their hands dirty.

Key contact point: Jeff Waugh and Pia Waugh, who will be able to forward onto various email lists, like the Open Source Industry Australia (OSIA) and various Linux Users Groups.

The [http://nzoss.org.nz/ NZ Open Source Society] promotes the use of OSS in New Zealand, and has good contacts into government, business, and the various developer/user communities. Key contact point: Don Christie

==Education==
There has been reasonable interest from Universities and TAFE colleges at Australian geospatial conferences, although it is unclear yet whether there is enough interest to draw delegates to the conference.

'''Cooperative Research Centre - Spatial Information''' which is a consortium of a number of universities, government departments and private companies: [http://www.crcsi.com.au/]

==Others==
'''If you know people in any of these area then split that area out into another section'''

Folks in environmental, horticulture, zoology, anthropology, archaelogy, geology, geophysics, engineering, demographics, land management, forestry, aquaculture, meteorology, museums

=2007 Sponsors=
As identified by Paul Ramsey:

'''SPONSORS Fee in US Fee in CAD'''
*Autodesk Inc. - Platinum 25,000.00 28,451.12
*DM Solutions Group - Gold 10,000.00 11,603.75
*ESRI Sponsorship - Silver 5,000.00 5,688.00
*GeoConnections 15,000.00 14,910.00 (local)
*Google Sponsorship - Gold 10,000.00 11,364.62
* ILMB (Integrated Land Management Bureau) 10,000.00 11,608.75 (local)
*Leica Geosystems - Gold 10,000.00 11,251.74
*Orkney, Inc. - Silver 5,000.00 5,191.91
*Refractions Research - Gold 10,000.00 11,603.75
*Safe Software Inc.- Gold 10,000.00 11,603.00
*Sierra Systems Group Inc. 5,000.00 5,300.81 (local)
* Total Sponsorship Payment Received 115,000.00 128,577.45

EXHIBITORS Fee in US Fee in CAD
*CamptoCamp - Stephanie Debayle 2,500.00 2,660.37
*Natural Resources Canada - Brian Low 1,250.00 1,452.00 (local)
*Open Planning Project - Chris Holmes 1,250.00 1,303.37
*Timberline Natural Resource Group - Will Cadell 2,500.00 2,664.01 (local)
Total Exhibitor Payments Received 8,079.75

Please note that this is *NOT* a useful list for solicitation
purposes, over half of the entries are organizations with little
interest in sponsoring an event on the other side of the world.
A (local) tag is next to organisations unlikely to sponsor.

=Market Segmentation - Sponsors=
==IT Companies==
===Large===
* Autodesk
* Google
* Microsoft
* IBM
* Yahoo
* HP
* Nokia
* Sun Microsystems

===Small===

==Surveying Companies==
==Geomatics Companies==
==Engineering Consulants==
==Media partners==
===Magazines===
GPS World ([[user:sab]] made initial contact with Don Jewell, GPS World's Military & Government Editor. They are interested in sending some delegates to cover the event)

Position Magazine have offered free advertising in return for free tickets to FOSS4G. Contact: Wendy Chapman and Jon Fairall.

===Publishers===

=Related Conferences=
* 17-19 July 2008, Surfers Paradise [[http://www.qsc2008.com.au/ SSI Qld]] ~ 300 people from Qld Geospatial industry.
* 1-3 Sep 2008, Auckland [http://www.cartography.org.nz/geocart2008/ GeoCart'2008 Cartography Conference] biannual, attracts ~ 200 people from geospatial education/research and industry.
* 29 Sep - 3 Oct 2008, Cape Town, South Africa [[http://conference.osgeo.org/foss4g/2008 FOSS4G 2008]]
* November 2, 2008, [http://www.osgeo.jp/foss4g2008-in-tokyo/ FOSS4G 2008 Tokyo (Tokyo FOSUFOJI 2008)]
* November 7-8, 2008, [http://www.osgeo.jp/foss4g2008-in-osaka/ FOSS4G 2008 Osaka (Osaka FOSUFOJI 2008)]
* Nov 2008, Canberra: Geospatial in Government conference being considered. See Ben Searle.
* 02-05 Dec 2008, Sydney, Australia: [[http://www.osdc.com.au/ Open Source Developers Conference]] attracts ~ 350 people. General Open Source. LISAsoft will be giving a presentation on Geospatial Open Source and can plug FOSS4G.
* 19-20 Jan 2009, Hobart, Australia: [[http://www.linux.org.au/LCA Linux conference]] attracts ~ 800 people. General Open Source.
* 17.-19 March 2009, Hannover, Germany: [[http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/wiki/Main_Page German Language Open Source Geospatial Conference]]
* 15 - 15 June 2009, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, [[http://www.gsdi.org/GSDI11/ GSDI 11 World Conference]] ~ 600 people from 40 countries. Global Spatial Data Infrastructure.
* 15 - 16 June 2009, Canberra, Australia, [[http://www.osdm.gov.au/Events/220.aspx spatial@gov Conference]]. Probably attract 50 to 150 people from Australian Spatial Government sector.
* 22 June, Nottingham, United Kingdom, [[http://www.opensourcegis.org.uk Open Source GIS Conference]].
* 8-10 July, 2009, Ecole Centrales De Nates, France, [[http://www.ogrs2009.org Open Source Research Symposium]]
* 22 - 24 Sept 2009, Karlsruhe, Germany, [[http://www.intergeo.de Intergeo]]. Europe's largest event for geoinformation and land management.
* 28 Sep - 2 Oct 2009 Adelaide: [[http://www.spatialsciences.org.au/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=90&year=2009&month=09&day=28&Itemid=67 Spatial Sciences Institute Bi-annual]] attracts ~ 900 people from Government, mining, utilities from Australia and around the region.
* '''20 - 23 October 2009 Sydney: FOSS4G'''
* 26-29 Oct 2009, Kampala, Uganda. FOSS4G track at [http://www.africagis2009.org AfricaGIS 2009]. Largest GIS conference series in Africa.
* 4 - 6 November 2009 Perth: [[http://www.walis.wa.gov.au/forum WALIS]] attracts ~ 500 people from Government, mining, utilities mainly from West Australia.
* 23 November - 8 December 2009 Sydney (UNSW) : [[http://www.geocomputation.org/ Geocomputation conference]] at UNSW, Sydney. International attendees like to have a back-to-back conference so they can justify coming to both.
* 1 - 5 December 2008: [[http://au.autodesk.com/event/speaker_cfp/ Autodesk University]] Autodesk are a key sponsor, and their employees won't be able to make other conferences during this time.

=Email List=

=Web Marketing=

=Private Data=
Specific private data about costs are initially being stored on private wiki pages at [[https://extranet.lisasoft.com/wiki/index.php/Foss4g-sydney-private_Marketing_Plan]]. This data is available to the FOSS4G2009 committee and Tour Hosts, our Professional Conference Organisor.

If you have a need to access this information, contact Cameron DOT Shorter AT Lisasoft DOT com, (who will forward onto helpdesk AT a2end.com).

[[Category:FOSS4G2009]]

FOSS4G 2009 Organising Committee Meetings

2009-02-17T21:23:22Z

Wiki-Harleyp: /* 2009/02/18 Tour Hosts / Organising Committee */

Back to [[FOSS4G 2009]]...

== Introduction ==
Actions from meetings are being managed in this google docs spreadsheet: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pu9014gybzrdbXehN8JAJfg&hl=en

The FOSS4G 2009 Organising Committee is responsible for the organization of the conference. More information can be found on the [[FOSS4G_2009_Governance]] page.

All wiki pages for FOSS4G 2009 meetings are listed under the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Meetings Meetings category]

== Calendar ==
* Upcoming meetings: [http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=s30qso7ccahgboia9smhfcofuo%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Australia/Sydney Google Calendar]
== Next Meeting ==
* Wednesday 18th February 2009, 1300 - 1400 (Sydney Time) http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2009&month=2&day=18&hour=2&min=0&sec=0&p1=195&p2=240&p3=179
** Next meeting:
=== 2009/02/18 Tour Hosts / Organising Committee===
Meeting will be via skype conference, and LISAsoft's teleconference line (has only 4 incoming lines). +61 8 8425 8091

* Attendees (skypeid)
** Cameron Shorter (cameronshorter)
** Simon Hope (dial in only)
** Tyler Mitchell (spatialguru) likely only available for 30-45 minutes
** Harley Prowse (dial in ideally)
*Agenda:
**Sponsorship and Exhibition
***Update (TH)
**Program (SH) [http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pm1bvJQodiW0s8T_P6CJ-BQ&hl=en Current Program], [http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pu9014gybzrd-LlSBIG3Kag&hl=en Camerons Suggestions]
***Call for Workshops (SH) - communicate the deadline!
***Call for Abstract Preparation (SH) - open 9th March
***Workshop\Abstract Review - decision required
***Outstanding Program Items - SH to complete amendments from CS
***Schedule Publication on website - looking for assistance on this
***Speakers - Spare slot needs filling & blurb for website
***Welcome Reception (TH)
**Marketing
***eBlast (CS/TH). Volunteer needed: Need to build community leaders list as per [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G2007_Communication#E-Mail_Marketing 2007] and contact GIS calendars and related activities, asking to add FOSS4G links.
*** Marketing into Asia strategy (CS). Volunteer needed here.
***Postcards (TH)
**Other Business
***Online Registration Form (TH)
***Interpreting (TH)
** Next meeting: Wednesday 18th March 2009, 1300 - 1400

== Prior Organising Committee Meetings ==
=== 2009/01/21 Tour Hosts / Organising Committee===
* Agenda:
**Sponsorship and Exhibition
***Update (TH)
**Program
***Call for Workshops and Abstracts (OC/TH)
***Program at a Glance (OC)
***Code Sprint (CO/TH)
**Marketing
***Mailing Lists (TH/OC)
**Other Business
***Tour Proposal (TH)
***Conference Dinner Proposal (TH)
***Accommodation (TH)
***Spatial Science Institute
** Vote to accept our [[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Discounts#Distributing_Conference_Profit Profit Sharing Policy]].
** Review [actions http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pu9014gybzrdbXehN8JAJfg] (Tour Hosts)
** Review [http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcd63bvv_14vzf642gg&hl=en schedule] (Tour Hosts)
** Functions and Tours report (Tour Hosts)
** Engaging SSI (Dennis Puniard, Cameron)
*** Dennis, SSI, expects to be able to draw ~ 100 delegates. SSI represent our target market.
*** SSI are holding a conference in Adelaide before ours. Advertising opportunity.
*** SSI interested to know how FOSS4G can be of benefit to SSI. Eg: 5% discount to SSI members.
** Marketing (Kirsty, Tour Hosts)
*** Marketing into Asia/Pacific
** Review Workshops (Mark)
** Review CCIP (Graham de Hoedt, Cameron)
*** Press release pending
*** Need to source data
** Keynote Speakers (Cameron)
** Review Website (Simon)
** Next meeting: Wednesday 18th February 2009, 1300 - 1400

====Meeting Notes====
* Sponsorship Propectus will be released 28 Jan
** Looking for leads local leads
** Tour Hosts wants the database so that they can track who has opened the emails etc.
** Suggest that we contact ASIBA, SSI and GITA
* Call for workshops looking good (Mark)
* OC should be putting themes into the program
* Code Sprint: Confirmed as 2 days.
* Marketing email:
** Suggest sending email to project leaders who forward onto contacts
* Press Release
** Should be plain text, linked back to the website
* Conference dinner:
** Optional function
** (OC preferred option) Captain Cook Harbour Cruise $135/person, 3 course dinner + drinks. Can take up to 300 guests.
** Darling Harbour $135 - $165/person.
** ACTION: Cameron to call SSI and offer booth space in return for an OSGeo booth at SSI conference.
** Discussed keynote speakers. Looking like:
*** Scott Power, BOM, compelling speaker to demystify Climate Change
*** Raj Singh, OGC, to introduce CCIP
*** A Google Maps speaker
*** We are still looking for a drawcard speaker, probably non-spatial, likely from Open Source community. (Mark Shuttleworth head of Ubuntu can't make it).
** ACTION: Cameron to start up "Marketing into Asia" thread.

==== 2009/01/21 Action Notes from OC Meeting with Tour Hosts====

'''1. Sponsorship and Exhibition'''

ACTION - OC to send TH all mailing lists so the Sponsorship Selling Document can be distributed to these contacts.

ACTION - CS to send the OC an email advising what was discussed in the meeting with Google.

'''2. Program – Code Sprint'''

ACTION – TH to present venue options to OC for 2 day code sprint (80 -100 pax). OC notes no registration fee and open to anyone (ie: not just conference attendees).

'''3. Marketing'''

ACTION - TH to draft a plain text email advertising the Conference, call for workshops and sponsorship opportunities. Links to the Conference website are to be included in this email. OC to then distribute to community leaders for re distribution to potential delegates.

ACTION - All press releases are to be stored in the wiki and sent through to community leaders for distribution.

ACTION - Simon to draft a call for workshops announcement.

ACTION - CS to invite all key players to form a marketing group and work out a strategy on how to target Asia.

'''4. Other Business'''

''Tours''

ACTION - OC confirmed that the TH suggested tours are appropriate and these should be added to website. TH to provide Simon with information. OC notes that tours are not to take delegates away from the workshops or code sprint.

''Conference Dinner''

ACTION - TH to confirm the dinner harbour cruise with the proposed three course dinner and 3 hour beverage package at $135.00 per person for a minimum of 150 guests.

''Accommodation''

ACTION - TH to confirm what the maximum capacity is for YHA Railway Square.

''Spatial Science Institute''

ACTION - CS to advise Dennis that a discount cannot be offered to SSI members, however, the OC is interested in swapping booth space on a contra deal arrangement. CS to confirm this arrangement as soon as possible so a booth can be allocated to SSI before they are all sold.

ACTION – At the upcoming Conference in February, Harley is to speak to ASIBA about swapping mailing lists and website links.

=== 2009/01/15 Climate Change Integration Plugfest===
Present:
* Graham de Hoedt, BOM
* Cameron Shorter, FOSS4G Organising Committee
* Greg Buehler, OGC
* Raj Singh, OGC

Decisions:
* Funding will be coordinated by OGC and disassociated from FOSS4G. (This should encourage proprietary vendors to take part). Funds can be moved from CCIP to FOSS4G by hiring conference space.
* Funding will be coordinated via cost sharing model (as per OGC testbeds) as this will encourage small vendors to participate. Cost sharing will not influence big vendors decision to participate.
* Scenario needs to be simple in order to encourage maximum participation. 'Focus on WMS/WFS.

Actions:
* BOM: look into becoming OGC member
* BOM: commit funding to CCIP. Done.
* BOM: write 1 page sponsorship proposal
* BOM: write up scenario based upon OWS4. Support from OGC
* OGC: Propose funding and sponsorship model.
* OGC: Set up a working committee for CCIP and private twiki pages
* OGC: Engage future conferences to continue CCIP. Eg: GSDI 11. GEOS Summit 2010. Aim to get a participant from these conferences engaged in CCIP to facilitate migrating CCIP to these conferences.
* 2009-01-19 OGC: Announce CCIP to OGC Planning Committee
* 2009-01-21 OGC/FOSS4G: OGC/FOSS4G Press Release for CCIP
* 2009-01-?? CCIP sponsors added to FOSS4G prospectus.
* 2009-01-28 Tour Hosts: FOSS4G prospectus released

=== 2008/12/12 Action Notes from OC Meeting with Tour Hosts===

'''1. Sponsorship and Exhibition'''

ACTION - OC to update the sponsorship leads list with sponsor contact details (names and email addresses) by close of business Wednesday 17 December 2008.

ACTION - TH to then send out an eblast informing these companies about the launch of the sponsorship prospectus.

'''2. Program Timeline'''

ACTION - SH to speak with CS’s contact and discuss the website and submission forms. There is to be one form for Call for Workshops and one form for Call for Abstracts. '''ONGOING AS OF 21-01-09'''

ACTION - SH to email delegates informing them of the submission forms opening dates.

ACTION - TH to change the abstract deadline to the beginning of June in the program timeline - '''DONE'''

ACTION - TH to send SH excel versions of the program timeline and project plan - '''DONE'''

ACTION - SH to upload these documents onto Google docs (on a private page) and create the relevant links to the wiki. - '''DONE'''

'''3. Social Program'''

''Welcome Reception''

ACTION - ML to do a site inspection at the Shelbourne Hotel.

ACTION - ML to advise JD of a suitable day so she can confirm time with the event co-ordinator.

ACTION - TH to put the level that can accommodate 200 guests on hold

''Conference Dinner''

ACTION - TH to get quotes for the following:

• A boat that takes delegates from SCEC, under the Harbour Bridge and on to Luna Park for Dinner

• A dinner cruise

• Restaurant in Cockle Bay

'''4. Tours'''

ACTION - TH to put together a tour proposal and present to OC at next meeting

'''5. Marketing'''

ACTION - TH to contact Position Magazine to get written confirmation. TH to compare entitlements in monetary value to show comparison

ACTION - OC to continually add new upcoming conferences to the Google calendar as they find out about them. - '''ONGOING'''

ACTION - OC to use the Blogosphere more often.

ACTION - OC to send TH a list of conferences that OSGeo will exhibit at to ensure that FOSS4G postcards are there.

ACTION - TH to send Tim Bowden postcards for distribution at a Conference he is attending in January in China.

ACTION - TH to send each OC member (except Simon) 50 postcards to distribute to any Conferences they attend

ACTION - TH to create a Google doc in which the OC can enter their mailing addresses

ACTION - TH to make up a PowerPoint slide for Mark to include at the end of the presentation he is giving at a Conference in February. Mark to distribute postcards at this Conference.

'''6. Program/Venue'''

ACTION - TH to confirm G07 with SCEC - '''DONE'''

ACTION - CS to sign venue matrix so TH can contract rooms - '''DONE'''

ACTION - SH to review the program and find a suitable time for the Installfest to take place. '''DONE'''

'''7. Next Meeting'''
Wednesday 21st January 2009, 1300 - 1400

=== 2008/12/12 Cameron + Tour Hosts ===
Present:
* Cameron Shorter
* Daniel Branik
* Julia Vernon
* Denisa Admova

Key notes:
* Tour Hosts agreed to exclude TH staff accommodation costs from the budget. Of note, hotels often give free rooms if there are sufficient people booking through them. It was agreed that Tour Hosts could make use of these free rooms, unless it has already been promised to FOSS4G in the proposal or contract. Action: Tour Hosts to check.
* Tour Hosts intend to use in house resources to support Workshop setup. Cameron noted that FOSS4G need to verify that Tour Hosts are not over-charging. Action: Tour Hosts to provide cost estimates and break down of costs which OSGeo can compare to alternate suppliers. OSGeo will have the option to use alternate supplies TH prove to be too expensive.
* Budget is being updated and should be put out today. Hopefully this one will be final sign off.
* Agreed to use Google Docs for review of key documents like budget. Comments from the OC can be set to strikeout font by TH once actions are addressed.

=== 2008/12/03 Organising Committee ===
* Logs at: http://logs.qgis.org/foss4g/%23foss4g.2008-12-02.log
Outstanding actions:
ACTION: Cameron to arrange with TH re to-do list/communication
* Started using Google Docs Spreadsheet at: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pu9014gybzrdbXehN8JAJfg
* Cameron needs to notify and get buy in from TH

ACTION: Budget
* Waiting on TH to accept budget review comments.

ACTION: TH: Does TH require more feedback from the OC?

ACTION - Cameron to follow up with TH re sponsorship.
* Kirsty from TH is incorporating changes, will get Cameron to review Showcase sponsorship section.
* Kirsty will circulate a sponsor/lead list for OC to fill in.

ACTION - simon to send preliminary program info to the list for discussion
* Simon: I have a meeting arranged with TH (today) at 12pm to discuss the program in more detail. I will report to the OC after this meeting.

ACTION: Make decision on workshop venue by vote.
* TH has done this and have all OC expressed preference? - Are we in position for the OC to take a decision on this - if not then what outstanding information is required - this seems a priority for tomorrow's meeting?

=== 2008/11/19 Organising Committee, plus Tour Hosts ===
* time: [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=11&day=19&year=2008&hour=13&min=0&sec=0&p1=240 1:00 PM Sydney time] 
* location: meeting was done via Skype teleconference
* Minutes: are available on this page's [[Talk:FOSS4G_2009_Organising_Committee_Meetings|discussion page]]
* Agenda:
*# decide who will record Minutes of this meeting
*# select chair for the meeting
*# confirm date/time for next meeting(s):
*#* OC meetings
*#* meetings between OC and TH
*# items for discussion:
*## Timetable and To-Do list
*## Budget: status, next steps, timetable
*## Venues:
*### SCEC: tour results, exhibition booth space
*### Workshops venue: status
*### Other venues: Code Sprint, Social
*## Program:
*### what items have to be confirmed, and by when, to 'move forward'(e.g. with Sponsorship Prospectus)
*### Workshops/Labs
*### Conference Program:
*###* 2007 Program: [http://www.foss4g2007.org/program_overview/ http://www.foss4g2007.org/program_overview/]
*###* 2008 Program: [http://conference.osgeo.org/index.php/foss4g/2008/schedConf/schedule] and [http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p-YpIgK8cxLIjFv0ZK6R0Mg]
*### Social event(s)
*### Code Sprint
*### Technical Visits/Tours
*### Outreach Activities

=== 2008/11/12 Geospatial Integration Showcase ===
* [[FOSS4G_2009_Meeting_2008-11-12_Geospatial_Integration_Showcase|Minutes]]

=== 2008/09/10 (Program And Venue) ===
* [[FOSS4G_2009_Meeting_2008-09-10_Program_And_Venue|Minutes]]
* time: [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=9&day=10&year=2008&hour=10&min=0&sec=0&p1=240 10:00 AM Sydney time] 
* location: meeting was via the [[Conference_Call|OSGeo Conference Call]] facilities

=== 2008/08/29 (Venue/Date selection ) ===
* [[FOSS4G_2009_Meeting_2008-08-29_(Venue/Date_selection_)|Minutes]]
* time: [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=29&year=2008&hour=10&min=0&sec=0&p1=240 10:00 AM Sydney time] 
* location: meeting was via the [[Conference_Call|OSGeo Conference Call]] facilities
* Agenda:
# Venue and Conference Dates
## TH to table venue comparison – OC/TH to discuss
## Meeting dates to be confirmed - based on venue selection:
##* UNSW: 17 – 21 November
##* SCEC: 23 – 27 November
# Sponsorship and Exhibition
## Sponsorship hierarchy – OC to confirm
# Website
## TH/OC to discuss
# FOSS4G 2008 promotion
## TH/OC to discuss
# Budget
## TH to table budget to OC chair and Treasurer
# Next Meeting
## Discuss dates

=== 2008/07/30 (Integrating free & proprietary conferencing software) ===
* [[FOSS4G_2009_Meeting_2008-07-30_(Integrating_free_%26_proprietary_conferencing_software)|Minutes]]
* time: [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=7&day=30&year=2008&hour=10&min=0&sec=0&p1=240 10:00 AM Sydney time] 
* location: meeting was via the [[Conference_Call|OSGeo Conference Call]] facilities

=== 2008/07/02 (Sponsorship and Exhibition Meeting) ===
* [[FOSS4G_2009_Meeting_2008-07-02_(Sponsorship_and_Exhibition_Meeting)|Action Notes]]
* time: [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=7&day=2&year=2008&hour=10&min=0&sec=0&p1=240 10:00 AM Sydney time] 
* location: meeting was via the [[Conference_Call|OSGeo Conference Call]] facilities

=== 2008/06/06 (Tour Hosts / OSGeo Contract review) ===
* [[FOSS4G_2009_Meeting_2008-06-06_(Tour_Hosts_/_OSGeo_Contract_review)|Minutes]]
* time: [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=6&day=6&year=2008&hour=10&min=0&sec=0&p1=240 10:00 AM Sydney time] 
* location: meeting was via the [[Conference_Call|OSGeo Conference Call]] facilities

=== 2008/05/30 (Kickoff meeting between Tour Hosts and Conference Organisors) ===
* [[FOSS4G_2009_Meeting_2008-05-30_(Kickoff_meeting_between_Tour_Hosts_and_Conference_Organisors)|Minutes]]
* time: [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=5&day=30&year=2008&hour=10&min=0&sec=0&p1=240 10:00 AM Sydney time] 
* location: meeting was via the [[Conference_Call|OSGeo Conference Call]] facilities

[[Category:Meetings]]
[[Category:FOSS4G2009]]

FOSS4G 2009 Website Feedback

2008-09-30T20:36:11Z

Wiki-Harleyp: /* Website todo list */

== Feedback to Tourhost ==

This page is meant to brainstorm ideas and provide feedback on the current version of the FOSS4G Sydney website

=== Current Version ===
http://www.tourhosts.com.au/testdev/foss4g/

== Feedback ==

==== Site Layout & Design ====
* Generally +ve response on the layout of the site
* OSGeo logo should be there '''We have added it to the side bar'''
* Tour host logo is unnecessary and detracts from OSGeo '''all Tour Hosts websites have our logo as it is one of the small ways we promote ourselves.'''
* Tourhosts contact info OK, but no graphic identity.
* I wonder if it's a bit too tall (taking more vertical space than really needed) '''We can make it smaller, but I think then we would lose some of the photo. What do others think?'''
* If it couldn't convey more information(e.g. the 2007 page banner, in addition to 'some images' and the logo includes a 'message', the full name of the conference, and the conference dates: http://www.foss4g2007.org/) '''Done'''
* Any "items" in the banner, such as images or text, should be links back to the Home page '''Do you mean you want to link the banner to go the home page? '''

===== Side Bar (Left) =====
* Generally OK, however, how will it look when categories need 'subcategories'? For example, what if "Program" needs "Workshops", "Labs", "Presentations", etc? Should the order of the existing menu items be changed? (e.g. Committee doesn't need to be 'at the top')'''We can add subcategories, so that when someone clicks on a item such as 'Program' the subcategories come down'''
* Contact Us Block on Left Side: I don't think this belongs here at all. There should be a separate "Contact Us" page(but maybe "Contacts" is better? That's what 2007 used), with a corresponding link in the Menu. '''We have moved this information to the footer and have added a contact us page.'''

===== Main Content (Center) =====
* No general comments.

===== Side Bar (Right) =====
* Will all pages have a 'right column', or perhaps only some pages? For example, for 2007, most pages did not have a right column, but the Home and Sponsorship pages did, where it was used to display the sponsor logos. As for the current "Expression of Interest" right column, get rid of it - it doesn't belong there, even at this stage (more about this below).''' We have moved the SOGeo Logo here, I like having a side bar on each page, What do others think?'''

===== Footer =====
* This div is too tall for the information it contains. Get rid of the copyright notice. Use the footer for some 'contact info', like what was done for 2007. Use a personal email address, not "Webmaster". Get rid of the "Website validate XHTML and CSS" text (not because the pages don't validate, but because it is unnecessary to advertise this). '''We have taken off the above information and added the contact information to the footer.'''

===== Page Titles =====
* The page's Title element should change from page to page (not always be the same as the Home page) in order to aid visitors who may bookmark specific pages

===== 404 Error =====
* The default "404 Not Found" behavior for typical 'root page names' such as "index.htm" and "index.html" should be a redirect to "default.asp", if that is the name of the website's home page.
* Some good practices for handling 404s http://alistapart.com/articles/perfect404/

===== Standard Validations =====
* All pages should validate to the required standards. The current Home page has 27 errors for the XHTML, and the CSS has 1 error and 23 warnings. I didn't do any accessibility checks, or check other pages.

* If this website content is "incomplete", which we know it will be for the next while, do not include 'essentially empty' placeholder pages (e.g. Program, Social, Sponsorship, Accommodation, Registration). Only add such pages when there is 'real content'. The Home page can convey the "watch this space" message to site visitors (but don't use vague terms like 'coming soon'). '''Done'''

===== Committee page =====
* Remove the word "Local". '''Done'''
* How about a map showing where the committee members are located? '''We are happy to add this, does someone want to put it together?'''
* It's a webpage, so include links where possible (e.g. see the 2007 About page: http://www.foss4g2007.org/about_foss4g/). ''' We can do this, however we would require more information about what link to add'''
* I think it would look better if each person had:

- name
- job title (i.e. not 'committee title')
- company name
- city/region/country
- possibly committee title
(Chair is fine, but do we also want to add things like Workshop Coordinator, etc?)

* I tidied up the OSGeo section of the governance wiki page, and updated my info as an example:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Governance. '''We are happy to do this, can everyone update their details on the wiki and we will update it on the website'''

===== Contacts page =====
* Add a 'Contacts' (or 'Contact Us') page, including a form that people can fill out. Mandatory parts of the form would be email address, subject, and 'comments', but other fields, if they exist, such as Title, Organization, etc. would be optional. Don't default "Title" to "Mr". '''Done'''

===== Add a "Stay Informed" page =====
* There may be a better name than 'Stay Informed', and it's likely that this page should be mentioned/linked from some text on the Home page (and maybe the "Contacts" page?). This page would cover any means that people can use to stay informed about FOSS4G2009. For now, the minimum would be to have a paragraph about this mailing list (and perhaps also the Wiki?). As they are developed, other things can be added. Some possibilities are: '''We are doing this through the Expression of interest form. This information that people entre into each field is captured and we send e-blasts to them telling them about what is happening with the Conference'''

- mention of any other mailing lists, such as a FOSS4G2009 Announcements mailing list
- info about a 'FOSS4G2009 blog'
- an RSS feed of 'website updates' (i.e. when new pages/content are added to existing pages)
- an RSS feed similar to 2007 for Presentations, if there is to be a community review

Also see [[#Social_Networking_Elements | Social Networking Elements]]

===== Expression of Interest =====
* Do away with this functionality. The "Stay Informed" page will direct people to 'pull' methods of receiving information about FOSS4G2009, and the "Contacts" page provides better functionality, as it's form would allow people to ask questions. '''See above'''

===== Sponsorship page =====
* Do not include a checkbox for "Potential Sponsor" on the "Contacts" page, but on that page (and perhaps other pages) direct potential sponsors to the Sponsorship page. On this page provide some relevant information now, so that this page exists right from the start of the website. Provide both an email address to contact as well as a form to use for making contact. (do not use "click here" for email addresses)'''We have taken this page off'''

==== Site URL & Domain Name ====
* Standardize on http://foss4g.org/2009
* Issue of using .asp . This is an Open Source techie conference and many techies will be disappointed to see a proprietary Microsoft driven site.

==== Social Networking Elements ====
For a general understanding of the importance of social networking element of the site please see
the [http://en.oreilly.com/webexny2008/public/content/home stay connected sidebar @Web2.0 Expo]
* Crowdvine page for the code sprint e.g. [http://wherecamp.crowdvine.com/ wherecamp]
* Twitter ([[User:sab|sab]] setup a conf account at http://twitter.com/foss4g2009) other e.g. [http://twitter.com/w2e_NY08 Web 2.0 Expo], [http://www.netsquared.org/blog/metromapper/use-twitter-conference-organize-and-meet-other-attendees reasoning about using twitter]
* ICal feed for the conference schedule: [http://en.oreilly.com/webexny2008/public/content/home Web 2.0 Expo]

== Standard Procedures for Website Additions/Updates ==

What process and policies will guide FOSS4G2009 website updates/additions?

=== Process: ===
Regardless of who is working on the update/addition, what "process" will be used? Some thoughts:

* while there may be an upside in terms of exposure, one downside of having 'the first cut' announced on this public list is that the list is archived and publicly available, therefore search engines may 'grab content' that we decide shouldn't be made public

* if the Organizing Committee doesn't review the content first, before it is available publicly, there may be the risk of wrong or mixed messages

* is a 'two step review' (Organizing Committee, then this public list) too much 'management'
* is the process any different for an update to the content of an existing page vs a new page

=== Policies: ===
What policies/guidelines will apply to updates/addition to the FOSS4G2009 website? Some thoughts:
* all pages must be valid (but what standard do we use to validate against? XHTML 1.0 Transitional?)
* the CSS used must be valid (but what standard do we use to validate against? CSS level 2?)
* what if any other standards must be met? (e.g. accessibility guidelines)
* which versions of which web browsers on which platforms must be used for testing, and are there specific types of tests that must be done?
* do 'interactive pages', such as pages with forms, need additional testing(i.e. to ensure that the form submission has been fully tested by multiple people, including 'the public', and that the submitted data is what is expected)
* is there a standard 'layout' that will be applied to all pages (e.g. top banner with 3-column layout below, + footer?)

== Website todo list ==

This section is intended to record ongoing tasks for the website:

*Integrate OCS for managing the presentation/paper submissions
*Add ICal feed for Conference Programme
*Add CrowdVine link for codesprint
*Correct spelling of surname for Harley Prowse on committee page
*Remove "GeoBiz" from details for Harley prowse on committee page

[[Category:FOSS4G2009]]
[[Category:FOSS4G]]

FOSS4G 2009 Governance

2008-09-29T04:07:43Z

Wiki-Harleyp:

The FOSS4G 2009 conference shall be managed by the FOSS4G 2009 Organising Committee (which is distinct from the OSGeo [[Conference Committee]]).
The discussions of the FOSS4G 2009 Organising Committee shall take place primarily on the
public foss4g2009 mailing list http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/foss4g2009 on IRC #foss4g and by conference calls. Sensitive issues, such as some financial matters, are discussed by the FOSS4G 2009 Organising Committee on a private email list.

= Decision Making =

* All non-material decisions can be taken by the FOSS4G 2009 Organising Committee chair or his delegates. The FOSS4G 2009 Organising Committee can refine the distinction between material and non-material from time to time. Where not clearly defined, it will be at the Chair's discretion.
* All material decisions must be passed by the FOSS4G 2009 Organising Committee, to ensure acceptance. In the interest of efficiency, absence of disagreement to a request will be interpreted as acquiescence.
* Material decisions where there is a split in opinion will be handled by a majority voting system.
* All material financial decisions must be accepted by the OSGeo board rep (ie, OSG has veto). So the FOSS4G 2009 Organising Committee can approve them "in principle" but the decision cannot be acted upon until the board rep actually signals it is OK (or vetoes it and returns it to discussion).
* The FOSS4G 2009 Organising Committee may open some questions to the OSGeo Conference Committee, but this will be a solicitation for feedback, and the decision will still be made by the FOSS4G 2009 Organising Committee.

= Membership =
The intent of membership is to have an effective FOSS4G 2009 Organising Committee (who get the work done) and have broad experience.

Representatives are expected to monitor FOSS4G 2009 email lists and vote on issues brought forward. Others who are seen to be making notable contributions to the development of FOSS4G 2009 will be offered a position on the FOSS4G 2009 Organising Committee. The FOSS4G 2009 Organising Committee is responsible for changing their membership.

== FOSS4G 2009 Organising Committee ==
* Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft (Chair)
* Tim Bowden, Mapforge
* Chris Tweedie, Landgate
* Shoaib Burq, Geoscience Australia
* Bruce Bannerman, Department of Primary Industries, Victoria
* Ben Searle, Office of Spatial Data Management
* Markus Lupp, lat/lon
* Simon Hope: ESRI Australia, Melbourne, Victoria
* Harley Prowse, [http://www.geobiz.co.nz/ Geographic Business Solutions Ltd], Auckland, New Zealand.
* Dave Patton: Consultant, and [http://www.confluence.org/ the Degree Confluence Project], Victoria, BC, Canada (Treasurer)

== OSGeo Representatives ==
* Jeff McKenna, OSGeo Conference Committee Chair
* Paul Ramsey, OSGeo Board Representative
* Tyler Mitchell, OSGeo Executive Director
* To Be Determined: FOSS4G2008 Representative

The OSGeo board of directors can replace the FOSS4G 2009 Organising Committee if it is determined not to be operating appropriately.

= Professional Conference Organiser =

Tour Hosts has been selected as the Professional Conference Organiser (PCO). They are participants on the FOSS4G 2009 Organising Committee but not voting members. The Tour Host principle representatives are:
* Jannelle Driscoll
* Denisa Adamova

The PCO will maintain a working bank account for the conference from which conference related financial activity will be operated. The PCO will be responsible for providing a detailed accounting of transactions on a regular basis to the FOSS4G 2009 Organising Committee. The FOSS4G 2009 Organising Committee will approve all budgets and authorise all payments as per the decision-making hierarchy described above.

The FOSS4G 2009 Organising Committee and OSGeo will enter into a separate agreement to define their relationship.

= Specific Task Groups =
== Professional Conference Organiser Selection Task Group ==
* Shoaib Burq (Australia)
* Bruce Bannerman (Australia)
* Cameron Shorter (Sydney, Australia)
* Jeff McKenna
* Paul Ramsey
* Tyler Mitchell
* Arnulf Christl
* Dave Patton
* Mark Leslie (Sydney, Australia)

[[Category:FOSS4G2009]]
[[Category:FOSS4G]]