OSGeo - User contributions [en]

20191000-QGIS-US

2020-12-18T19:55:39Z

Wiki-Kgjenkins: /* Presentations */ added links to videos

==Date==
October 25th 2019

==Description==
A QGIS Centric Meeting will be held on October 25th 2019 in Chattanooga TN at Chattanooga State.

We have a maximum capacity of 135 people at the moment. This can change if it fills up early.

We are seeking presentations centered around QGIS. For now email rjhale@northrivergeographic.com

==Time==
8:30 EST to 4:30 EST

==Location==

Chattanooga State Technical Community College

Allbright Omniplex Building

4501 Amnicola Highway

Chattanooga TN 37406

==Tickets==

Tickets are $25

If you want to sponsor the meeting you have two options:
* $50 for Silver Sponsorship. That gets you one free ticket in plus help defray some of the cost.
* $100 for Gold Sponsorship. That gets you two free tickets and helps defray some of the costs.

If you can't afford a ticket contact me (rjhale@northrivergeographic.com) and We will work on a scholarship!

==Registration==

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/qgis-conference-tickets-67208884583

==Food==
I have hopefully put something on the tickets but if you have any dietary restrictions please let me know and we will get it handled. Food is provided at this event and I'd prefer to not kill/cause gastric distress to you.

==Submit==

We are seeking presentations centered around QGIS:

* Are you using QGIS for work related activities?

* Programming with QGIS?

* QGIS in Humanitarian Functions?

* QGIS with Databases?

* Government Agency using QGIS?

==Social==

http://www.taphousechatt.com/

Time: 6:00 P.M. EST

October 24th 2019

==Presentations==

'''Keynote: Nyall Dawson''' - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34ZRZUpZfLo video] 
Nyall has been a core developer with the QGIS project since 2013. During this time he has contributed over 5000 commits to the project, and today is one of the most active developers on the project. Nyall's contributions to QGIS cover a wide range of areas - from improvements to the map rendering and symbology engines, enhancements to labeling and print layout functionality, right through to optimisations of the underlying spatial processing algorithms utilised by QGIS. He is dedicated to making QGIS a unique tool capable of creating cartographic effects which to date have not been available in GIS software applications. Nyall is currently the proprietor and lead developer at North Road Consulting, an Australian spatial development consultancy which predominantly focus on investing in and promoting use of open source GIS applications.

'''Randal Hale - QGIS: It's all about Form(s)''' - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1TdxFEMbzE video] 
QGIS comes with the ability to create forms to help you input data or capture data. You can build simple forms to help users avoid misspellings and help speed up data capture. You can also build forms where data entry is dependent on previous data entered as well as forms where data entry depends on other GIS data. Building Forms in QGIS is easy, powerful, and easily done if you have no programming experience. I'm going to attempt to talk you through the easiest to make forms plus one difficult form to show you how easy this can be (or hard depending on how the demos work).

'''Chad Howard - Using QGIS with TN's 911 Database Standard''' - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RO3QUTL8uU video] 
Henry County 911 recently moved away form their COTS system and started using QGIS, PostGIS, and Fulcrum to collect and maintain the county's 911 data. This talk covers some of the in's and out's of switching software, tools, and workflows.

'''Erich Purpur - EcoValuator: QGIS plugin development''' - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2EO9pSXUoY video] 
Working in collaboration with Key-Log Economics (An environmental economics consulting firm) in a project funded by the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation, I (Erich Purpur) worked with a group of other developers and contributors to build EcoValuator, a plugin built for QGIS 3. EcoValuator is built on python and provides a simple means of estimating the dollar value of a study area, based on the land cover types in that study area, and on your ecosystem service of choice. This presentation will cover background information about the project, what are ecosystem services, how the EcoValuator works, challenges of using the QGIS python API, and demonstration of the plugin in action.

'''Bernie Drahola - Building a cloud-based mapping and analysis solution based on Openlayers and CesiumJS''' - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=josslwhbnGQ&t=1659s video] 
18 month ago our team felt the need for having a next Gen cloud mapping solution. We did not want to leave it all to ArcGIS Online, so we decided to build our own. It is designed to make maps, analyze data, add custom database solutions, and to share maps and data with fellow users.Take a look behind the scene of the journey of putting it all together and learn how far we have come and what are our ideas in terms of connecting Open Source solutions like QGIS and GeoServer.

'''Jody Garnett - GeoCat Bridge for QGIS''' - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9Jq6VEKjRM video] 
We would like to share one of the most effective publishing solutions for QGIS - the new GeoCat Bridge for QGIS. This desktop first approach to a hybrid infrastructure provides a great “one-click” publication workflow:

* QGIS layer identification information to register published dataset in online catalog
* Publish layers using GeoServer or MapServer (with more options planned)
* Great cartography support adapting desktop styling to a range of format

GeoCat Bridge was previously known for helping ArcMap users publish data, metadata and importantly cartography to a GeoServer or MapServer stack. With GeoCat Bridge 4, and customer demand, we are pleased to bring this experience to QGIS Desktop. This presentation looks into what the qgis-bridge-plugin offers, functionality made available for the processing toolbox, and the open source python libraries used to make it all happen. GeoCat is an established open-source company focused on helping government customers of all sizes make the best use of open source. Our company is known as experts with spatial-data-infrastructure, core contributors of GeoNetwork, and supporting OSGeo community on behalf of our customers.

'''Keith Jenkins - Supporting QGIS at an Academic (Cornell University) Library''' - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47QYaa_Gltg&t=324s video] 
Over the years, QGIS has become our tool of choice when assisting student, staff, and faculty researchers at our library's busy GIS Help Desk. We'll discuss some of our favorite and most commonly-used QGIS features, and why we prefer to teach QGIS to those who are new to GIS. We support other GIS software as well, but increasingly come across cases where the equivalent QGIS workflow is so much simpler or faster that we would be remiss not to share it and thereby gain a new QGIS advocate. Slides available at https://kgjenkins.github.io/qgis-chattanooga-2019/

'''Doug Newcomb - Quick methods for recreating a DEM when reprojecting a LiDAR point Cloud''' - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3zcAWuSVEc video] 
Working with multiple LiDAR collection point clouds across a landscape can require reprojecting the point cloud and rebuilding a DEM for further analysis. It's fairly straightforward to create a DEM from ground points, but there will be holes for buildings and waterbodies where breaklines may not be present to assist in filling in the holes. Using the LiDAR ground point data, it's possible to quickly fill voids using GRASS GIS raster methods, and to identify areas where the technique does not work well and further work is needed.

'''Dennis McKay - Visualizing the Uncertainty of Parcel Boundary Locations''' - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo5Yj9py4U0 video] 
Some parcel boundaries are depicted in locations incongruous with the underlying remotely-sensed data. This discrepancy confounds critical land-related determinations. A user is faced with not the being able to make an informed decision until the datasets are resolved to an acceptable tolerance. While determining which dataset is positionally inaccurate it is important to realize that raster data uncertainty is generally consistent throughout the dataset. The uncertainty of parcel corner locations (if properly derived from the analysis of survey measurements using parametric least squares analysis) is different for every point. Strategies to visualize the expected uncertainty of parcel location would help end users to determine whether parcel vectors or underlying raster data needs improving. Openly publishing a standardized geodatabase of survey measurements as well as established network analysis/adjustment tools would usher in a future where parcel locations would evolve toward certainty. The use of visualizations such as augmented reality and virtual reality would assist data producers and data consumers in comprehending positional uncertainty and determining the appropriateness of a dataset in making critical decisions.

'''Becky Wilkes - The SQUAD Tool''' - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VLCe3fI4zE video] 
I have worked for the past decade in global public health, on a large contract that oversees the strengthening of health information systems in countries often overwhelmed by health burdens such as HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria. Many of these countries, such as Nigeria, Kenya and Tanzania, have only recently developed country Master Facility Lists that contain basic information, such as name, type, size, and location of all of the many thousands of health facilities in their countries. These databases are not always accurate, so my team recently developed a tool to help health analysts who are not typically GIS experts to assess and improve this data, by looking for the presence of certain anomalies in the data with a plugin tool.

The Spatial Quality Anomalies Diagnosis (SQUAD) Tool can rapidly and systematically identify the presence of any of these anomalies in each record in a Master Facility List (MFL), which can then be investigated further to determine whether there is a data quality issue, as an aid to improving the overall quality of the MFL. I will share information on how the tool was developed and how it has been used, particularly by the US Department of State and by the Ministry of Health of Nigeria.

==Sponsors==

North River Geographic Systems, Inc - Gold Sponsor

Tony Kinder, PE, RLS - Gold Sponsor

Wicked Moon Webs - Gold Sponsor

Adam Cox - Gold Sponsor

Carl Anderson, GISP - Gold Sponsor

Drahola Technologies - Gold Sponsor

Paul Wickman - Gold Sponsor

Julian Burke - Silver Sponsor

Chad Howard - Silver Sponsor

Jody Garnett - Silver Sponsor

[[Category:FOSS4G]]
[[Category:Events]]

QGIS NY 2020

2020-11-23T17:43:41Z

Wiki-Kgjenkins: /* UPDATE */ typo

== CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 ==

Given the most recent guidance from NYS and the CDC regarding the coronavirus, the planning committee has made the difficult decision to postpone this event. Registered attendees will receive new conference information from someone on the Planning Committee once a new date has been set.

We hope you, your families, and your communities stay healthy and that this situation resolves quickly.

=== UPDATE ===
Not knowing when we might be able to re-schedule an in-person event, we hosted a webinar on May 15 2020 that was attended by 137 people! If you missed it, you can check out the video recording at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU6XCSUFPLU

'''QGIS NY: Getting Started with QGIS'''

Do you want to learn more about QGIS, the free and open source software for mapping and geospatial analysts? This one-hour webinar will present several quick demos to help you get started with QGIS, followed by a panel Q&A, including special guest Kurt Menke, the author of several books about QGIS.

== Date and location ==
Friday, April 3, 2020 
Cornell University, Mann Library 
Ithaca, NY 14853

== Description ==
A full day of QGIS excitement, with a choice of workshops in the morning, and a series of presentations after lunch.

Tentative schedule:

8:30am Registration
9:00am Welcome
9:30am Choice of QGIS workshops (beginner/advanced)
12:30pm Lunch
1:30pm QGIS cartography
2:00pm QGIS and mobile data collection
2:30pm QGIS features and plugins ("Did you know...")
3:00pm Panel: Questions and Answers
followed by Mappy Hour

== Registration ==
REGISTRATION IS FULL.

Registration opened at 9am Jan 30, and we reached our maximum capacity of 50 before 5pm the same day! We later increased capacity to 75, in order to accommodate people from our waiting list.

We also plan to live-stream or recording some sessions.

One goal of this conference it to build a stronger regional open-source GIS community. We will be facilitating a mentor-mentee program in which an experienced QGIS user will be matched with a beginner with similar interests. You can sign up to be a mentor or mentee when you register.

== Organizers ==
* [[User:Kgjenkins|Keith Jenkins]], Cornell University
* Mickey Dietrich, Tug Hill Commission
* [[User:amallette|Alaina Mallette]], Tug Hill Commission
* Frank Donnelly, Baruch College

[[Category:Events]]

2020-01-14T20:38:40Z

Wiki-Kgjenkins: /* Description */ tentative schedule

QGIS NY 2020

2019-11-25T13:57:49Z

Wiki-Kgjenkins: QGIS NY 2020 placeholder

== Date ==
Friday, April 3, 2020

== Location ==
Cornell Unversity

Mann Library

Ithaca, NY 14853

== Description ==
A full day of QGIS excitement, with a choice of workshops in the morning, and a series of presentations after lunch. Details to come...

== Registration ==
Details coming in January 2020...

== Organizers ==
* [[User:Kgjenkins|Keith Jenkins]], Cornell University
* Mickey Dietrich, Tug Hill Commission
* Alaina Mallette, Tug Hill Commission
* Frank Donnelly, Baruch College

20191000-QGIS-US

2019-10-25T17:41:21Z

Wiki-Kgjenkins: /* Presentations */ link to Keith Jenkins slides

==Date==
October 25th 2019

==Description==
A QGIS Centric Meeting will be held on October 25th 2019 in Chattanooga TN at Chattanooga State.

We have a maximum capacity of 135 people at the moment. This can change if it fills up early.

We are seeking presentations centered around QGIS. For now email rjhale@northrivergeographic.com

==Time==
8:30 EST to 4:30 EST

==Location==

Chattanooga State Technical Community College

Allbright Omniplex Building

4501 Amnicola Highway

Chattanooga TN 37406

==Tickets==

Tickets are $25

If you want to sponsor the meeting you have two options:
* $50 for Silver Sponsorship. That gets you one free ticket in plus help defray some of the cost.
* $100 for Gold Sponsorship. That gets you two free tickets and helps defray some of the costs.

If you can't afford a ticket contact me (rjhale@northrivergeographic.com) and We will work on a scholarship!

==Registration==

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/qgis-conference-tickets-67208884583

==Food==
I have hopefully put something on the tickets but if you have any dietary restrictions please let me know and we will get it handled. Food is provided at this event and I'd prefer to not kill/cause gastric distress to you.

==Submit==

We are seeking presentations centered around QGIS:

* Are you using QGIS for work related activities?

* Programming with QGIS?

* QGIS in Humanitarian Functions?

* QGIS with Databases?

* Government Agency using QGIS?

==Social==

http://www.taphousechatt.com/

Time: 6:00 P.M. EST

October 24th 2019

==Presentations==

Keynote:
Nyall Dawson - Nyall has been a core developer with the QGIS project since 2013. During this time he has contributed over 5000 commits to the project, and today is one of the most active developers on the project. Nyall's contributions to QGIS cover a wide range of areas - from improvements to the map rendering and symbology engines, enhancements to labeling and print layout functionality, right through to optimisations of the underlying spatial processing algorithms utilised by QGIS. He is dedicated to making QGIS a unique tool capable of creating cartographic effects which to date have not been available in GIS software applications. Nyall is currently the proprietor and lead developer at North Road Consulting, an Australian spatial development consultancy which predominantly focus on investing in and promoting use of open source GIS applications.

Randal Hale - QGIS: It's all about Form(s) - QGIS comes with the ability to create forms to help you input data or capture data. You can build simple forms to help users avoid misspellings and help speed up data capture. You can also build forms where data entry is dependent on previous data entered as well as forms where data entry depends on other GIS data. Building Forms in QGIS is easy, powerful, and easily done if you have no programming experience. I'm going to attempt to talk you through the easiest to make forms plus one difficult form to show you how easy this can be (or hard depending on how the demos work).

Chad Howard - Using QGIS with TN's 911 Database Standard - Henry County 911 recently moved away form their COTS system and started using QGIS, PostGIS, and Fulcrum to collect and maintain the county's 911 data. This talk covers some of the in's and out's of switching software, tools, and workflows.

Erich Purpur - EcoValuator: QGIS plugin development. Working in collaboration with Key-Log Economics (An environmental economics consulting firm) in a project funded by the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation, I (Erich Purpur) worked with a group of other developers and contributors to build EcoValuator, a plugin built for QGIS 3. EcoValuator is built on python and provides a simple means of estimating the dollar value of a study area, based on the land cover types in that study area, and on your ecosystem service of choice. This presentation will cover background information about the project, what are ecosystem services, how the EcoValuator works, challenges of using the QGIS python API, and demonstration of the plugin in action.

Bernie Drahola - Building a cloud-based mapping and analysis solution based on Openlayers and CesiumJS. 18 month ago our team felt the need for having a next Gen cloud mapping solution. We did not want to leave it all to ArcGIS Online, so we decided to build our own. It is designed to make maps, analyze data, add custom database solutions, and to share maps and data with fellow users.Take a look behind the scene of the journey of putting it all together and learn how far we have come and what are our ideas in terms of connecting Open Source solutions like QGIS and GeoServer.

Jody Garnett - GeoCat Bridge for QGIS - We would like to share one of the most effective publishing solutions for QGIS - the new GeoCat Bridge for QGIS. This desktop first approach to a hybrid infrastructure provides a great “one-click” publication workflow:

* QGIS layer identification information to register published dataset in online catalog
* Publish layers using GeoServer or MapServer (with more options planned)
* Great cartography support adapting desktop styling to a range of format

* GeoCat Bridge was previously known for helping ArcMap users publish data, metadata and importantly cartography to a GeoServer or MapServer stack. With GeoCat Bridge 4, and customer demand, we are pleased to bring this experience to QGIS Desktop. This presentation looks into what the qgis-bridge-plugin offers, functionality made available for the processing toolbox, and the open source python libraries used to make it all happen. GeoCat is an established open-source company focused on helping government customers of all sizes make the best use of open source. Our company is known as experts with spatial-data-infrastructure, core contributors of GeoNetwork, and supporting OSGeo community on behalf of our customers.

Keith Jenkins - Supporting QGIS at an Academic (Cornell University) Library - Over the years, QGIS has become our tool of choice when assisting student, staff, and faculty researchers at our library's busy GIS Help Desk. We'll discuss some of our favorite and most commonly-used QGIS features, and why we prefer to teach QGIS to those who are new to GIS. We support other GIS software as well, but increasingly come across cases where the equivalent QGIS workflow is so much simpler or faster that we would be remiss not to share it and thereby gain a new QGIS advocate. Slides available at https://kgjenkins.github.io/qgis-chattanooga-2019/

Doug Newcomb - Quick methods for recreating a DEM when reprojecting a LiDAR point Cloud - Working with multiple LiDAR collection point clouds across a landscape can require reprojecting the point cloud and rebuilding a DEM for further analysis. It's fairly straightforward to create a DEM from ground points, but there will be holes for buildings and waterbodies where breaklines may not be present to assist in filling in the holes. Using the LiDAR ground point data, it's possible to quickly fill voids using GRASS GIS raster methods, and to identify areas where the technique does not work well and further work is needed.

Dennis McKay - Visualizing the Uncertainty of Parcel Boundary Locations - Some parcel boundaries are depicted in locations incongruous with the underlying remotely-sensed data. This discrepancy confounds critical land-related determinations. A user is faced with not the being able to make an informed decision until the datasets are resolved to an acceptable tolerance. While determining which dataset is positionally inaccurate it is important to realize that raster data uncertainty is generally consistent throughout the dataset. The uncertainty of parcel corner locations (if properly derived from the analysis of survey measurements using parametric least squares analysis) is different for every point. Strategies to visualize the expected uncertainty of parcel location would help end users to determine whether parcel vectors or underlying raster data needs improving. Openly publishing a standardized geodatabase of survey measurements as well as established network analysis/adjustment tools would usher in a future where parcel locations would evolve toward certainty. The use of visualizations such as augmented reality and virtual reality would assist data producers and data consumers in comprehending positional uncertainty and determining the appropriateness of a dataset in making critical decisions.

Becky Wilkes - The SQUAD Tool - I have worked for the past decade in global public health, on a large contract that oversees the strengthening of health information systems in countries often overwhelmed by health burdens such as HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria. Many of these countries, such as Nigeria, Kenya and Tanzania, have only recently developed country Master Facility Lists that contain basic information, such as name, type, size, and location of all of the many thousands of health facilities in their countries. These databases are not always accurate, so my team recently developed a tool to help health analysts who are not typically GIS experts to assess and improve this data, by looking for the presence of certain anomalies in the data with a plugin tool.

The Spatial Quality Anomalies Diagnosis (SQUAD) Tool can rapidly and systematically identify the presence of any of these anomalies in each record in a Master Facility List (MFL), which can then be investigated further to determine whether there is a data quality issue, as an aid to improving the overall quality of the MFL. I will share information on how the tool was developed and how it has been used, particularly by the US Department of State and by the Ministry of Health of Nigeria.

==Sponsors==

North River Geographic Systems, Inc - Gold Sponsor

Tony Kinder, PE, RLS - Gold Sponsor

Wicked Moon Webs - Gold Sponsor

Adam Cox - Gold Sponsor

Carl Anderson, GISP - Gold Sponsor

Drahola Technologies - Gold Sponsor

Paul Wickman - Gold Sponsor

Julian Burke - Silver Sponsor

Chad Howard - Silver Sponsor

Jody Garnett - Silver Sponsor

[[Category:FOSS4G]]
[[Category:Events]]

20191000-QGIS-US

2019-09-13T17:04:44Z

Wiki-Kgjenkins: /* Presentations */ typo

OSGeoUS

2018-05-02T20:40:10Z

Wiki-Kgjenkins: /* Membership */

== Mission ==
OSGeo.US will cultivate and support local OSGeo chapters and projects in the United States. OSGeo.US will also support activities and events that build awareness of the OSGeo and create opportunities to grow the OSGeo community.

==Goals==
*Start to hold meetings
*Advocate for the use of Open Source GIS at regional and state levels
*Develop an OSGeoUS presence at conferences

==Meetings==

Please join us at foss4gna for our first f2f meeting!

==Activities==

OSGeo.US is supporting the [[FOSS4GNA_Code_Sprint_2018]], obtaining a venue for sprint participants.

==Membership==

[[user:rjhale1971|Randal Hale]]

[[user:Kurt_Menke|Kurt Menke]]

[[user:Micheletobias|Michele Tobias]]

[[user:kgjenkins|Keith Jenkins]]

FOSS4G 2017 Competition Committee

2016-09-21T20:52:35Z

Wiki-Kgjenkins: add Diana Sinton

== FOSS4G 2017 Competition Committee ==

This committee is dedicated to organising competitive events in the FOSS4G 2017 social program. We are at the moment primarily engaged in organising the Map Gallery, which includes submissions from children and adults, as well as the Iron Mapping competition.

=== Communication ===

All discussions and planning happen through the FOSS4G 2017 mailing list ([https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/foss4g2017 subscribe])

=== Committee Members ===

# Heather Hillers
# [[User:Kgjenkins|Keith Jenkins]]
# Paul Wickman
# [[Jeff McKenna]]
# Diana Sinton
# ''your name here''

=== Map Gallery ===

The Map Gallery is a open map competition that has been held at various FOSS4G conferences over the years and has always been well received. The Map Gallery will accept digital submissions of maps from adults and from children. Awards will be given for various categories of our choosing. Submissions will be publicly screened in a dedicated space through the duration of the event.

Submission:
Conference goers can submit maps digitally through the conference web site. The Map Gallery will be advertised in the conference submission form, on the web site, on OSGeo user forums and on Twitter.

Awards and Recognition:

Various Award Categories will be selected by the committee. Conference goers can vote online for their favourite submissions. Winners will be announced at the closing ceremony. There will be an immaterial awards, such as Ivan Sanchez' voice on your answering machine. For children's categories a small material award might be considered. Each submission will have a guestbook on the online website, so that the map makers can get feedback on their submissions and communicate with the viewers.

==== Task List for 2017 ====
# Get notes on Map Gallery from Nottingham and Portland, if they exist.
# Write Call for submissions Content for FOSS4G 2017 Web Site, Registration site, for Twitter, for user groups
# Create Submission Site FOSS4G 2017 Home Page (copy from Portland or Nottingham)
# Get space at Conference Venue sufficient for a large display, preferably wall space in the foyer or kiosk area.
# Organise materials and hardware for display (large screen)
# Come up with list of categories
# Organize immaterial prizes
# Also organise some sort of recognition (a pin or a certificate) for each children's submission
# organise an announcement at opening session
# organise an announcement and prizes at closing session

=== Iron Mapper ===

Back in 2012, Diana Sinton organized an "Iron Mapper" event at Cornell University. Inspired by "Iron Chefs", participants were tasked with creating a map within 60 minutes. Each map had to use a specific dataset (the "secret ingredient") that was revealed at the start of the event. Some other datasets were provided, but participants were also allowed to download and use any other data they wanted to use. At the end, each person showed their map, and described what they did (maybe 1 minute each?) and then we all voted on our favorites, and a couple prizes were awarded to the winners. It was great to see the variety of maps that were produced, and also what could be accomplished in a short amount of time. This could be a fun addition to FOSS4G, and the resulting maps could possibly be funneled into a larger Map Gallery, or it could just be a stand-alone event.

The Utah Geographic Information Council has held an "Iron Cartographer" competition for at least the last two years, in which features two top cartographers who compete head-to-head. Thanks to Michael Terner, who witnessed those events and mentioned it to Guido Stein, who tweeted about it and got the ball rolling...

FOSS4G twist is that all the work must be done in QGIS (or the open tool of their choice?)

==== Task List for 2017 ====

# Organize a room/space for the event
# Create/publish the rules
# Pick the "secret ingredient" dataset
# Find Master of Ceremonies
# Someone to manage the submissions
# Someone to organize the voting - is there a panel of judges or does the public vote (phone app?)
# Someone to run around excitedly asking questions during the event (floor reporter from the ''real'' Iron Chef)

=== Point / Counterpoint Debate (points, get it? HA!) ===

A friendly debate between two folks on some particularly thorny issue in GIS? Something along the lines of the NPR show, "intelligence squared" This could be set up as a twist on the longer panel sessions. In this regard I’d like to see it end with a “clear” winner of the debate (gauging audience opinion before/after the debate).

At Bonn there were interesting back-to-back talks by Vlad Agofonkin and Ivan Sanchez on vector tiles and "what the trend means" that had the same effect: two bright minds with different perspectives (although there was no back-and-forth).

There was a great unplanned debate at a FOSS4G Europe between Ivan and Peter Baumann on stage, on a thorny issue, but after they hugged, and it was fascinating to hear and see, the passion, the knowledge, it was exactly what the industry was wondering at the time, really on topic. I can think of some great thorny issues, that would definitely be entertaining to hear. Getting the 2 right people might be tricky though.

==== Task List for 2017 ====

# A room/space: perhaps this is just a twist on a panel discussion with audience participation?
# A topic (or two?)
# Moderator
# Audience voting process (phone app?)

=== Benchmark Challenge ===

Reviving performance benchmark challenges. I believe they said that MapServer and GeoServer used to be lined up next to one another to see relative performance in a formal setting. Would some of this nature still be relevant in today’s ecosystem? What software tools would be tested? What performance metrics?

==== Task List for 2017 ====
# A room/space: it is live testing or just presentation of benchmark results?
# What is being compared?

[[Category: FOSS4G2017]]

User:Kgjenkins

2016-09-21T20:48:58Z

Wiki-Kgjenkins:

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I'm a big fan of QGIS, PostGIS, GeoServer, and OpenStreetMap, ever since learning about them at my first FOSS4G in 2007.

As a librarian at a major research university, I provide technical support and introductory training for various geospatial software (open and closed).

I also spend a lot of time helping researchers find data sources, which eventually led me to create [http://geolode.org/ Geolode.org], a collaborative catalog of open geodata websites around the world.

2011-09-13T23:08:17Z

Wiki-Kgjenkins:

Keith Jenkins (Ithaca, NY -- Cornell University)

I work with [http://cugir.mannlib.cornell.edu CUGIR], an open data repository for New York state. 

I also just starting working on a directory of geodata websites worldwide -- there are so many out there! The general plan is to keep it up to date by harvesting links from delicious, twitter, known lists of geodata links, etc. As new sites are identified, they will be lightly described and approved by a human reviewer. The primary target is websites that serve geospatial data, but this could be easily extended to tutorials and GIS-related documentation, for example.