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FOSS4G 2010 Breakout Sessions

2010-08-30T18:28:18Z

Wiki-Maria antonia brovelli: /* Spatial Data Infrastructure */

[[Category:FOSS4G]]
[[Category:FOSS4G2010]]

back to [[FOSS4G 2010]]

= Introduction =
During the [http://2010.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G2010 conference] in Barcelona, Spain, there will be conference rooms available for people to hold Breakout Sessions (aka Birds-of-a-Feather).

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

This year, Breakout Sessions sessions will be held on Wednesday 8th September ('''and possibly at other times as well - depending on interest'''). A number of rooms will be available. Most popular sessions will get bigger rooms.

'''Room allocation to be determined'''

==Organising Contact==
* [[Tyler Mitchell]]
* [[Mauricio Miranda]]
* Other volunteers welcome - sign up here!

==Timeslots Available==

At this stage, each room is scheduled for one hour between 18:00 to 19:00.

Remember the Gala Dinner is scheduled at 20:00.

=Room Assignments=
==Rooms Available==

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| Room 5 (250 pax)
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| Room 6 (320 pax)
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| Room 8 (100 pax)
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| Room 11 (78 pax)
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| Room 12 (90 pax)
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= Proposed Topics =

* Add yours below...

==Web Client (OpenLayers/GeoExt)==

The first half of this session will be focused on OpenLayers, and the second half will focus on GeoExt. We can decide on topics at the start of each session, but we'll likely cover ideas for OpenLayers 3.0/GeoExt 1.0, getting more developers involved, and just some general Q/A time.

'''Coming:'''

* Tim Schaub
* Eric Lemoine
* David Jonglez - for the first half, at least
* Florin Iosub
* Xurxo Méndez
* [[Ricardo Pinho|Ricardo Pinho]]
* [[Nuno Guerreiro|Nuno Guerreiro]]
* Hugo Pereira

==Spatial Databases BoF==

Relational and non-relational persistence layers, let's get together and talk about interoperability, appropriate use cases, architecture and where we should be moving the spatial persistence state-of-the-art!

'''Coming:'''

* Paul Ramsey (PostGIS)
* Nicklas Avén (PostGIS)
* Brent Wood (NIWA)
* Peter Baumann (Jacobs University / rasdaman)
* Vincent Picavet (Oslandia/PostGIS)
* [[Nuno Guerreiro|Nuno Guerreiro]]
* Olivier Courtin (PostGIS)
* Hugo Pereira

==WPS BoF==

Several presentation on Web Processing selected
for presentation at FOSS4G2010 indicates a growing
interest amongst the communities.

If you are interested please add your names below...

'''Who's coming:'''

* Venkatesh Raghavan
* [[Markus Neteler]]
* [[Daniel Kastl]]
* Maria Brovelli
* [[Ian Turton]]
* [[Gerald Fenoy]]
* Nicolas Bozon
* [[Jody Garnett]]
* [[User:fpenarru | Fran Peñarrubia]]
* [[User:MarkusSchneider | Markus Schneider]]
* Luca Delucchi
* Milan Antonovic
* [[User:Maxi71 | Massimiliano cannata]]
* Luca Casagrande
* [[User:Rajsingh| Raj Singh ]]
* [[User:Jesus|Jorge de Jesus]] (Plymouth Marine Laboratory)
* Bertrand Gervais
* [[User:Schpidi | Stephan Meissl]]
* Add your name here

==Sensor Web BoF==

The use of Sensor Web implementations has constantly increased during the last years.

If you are interested please add your names below...

'''Who's coming:'''

* Simon Jirka
* Marjorie Robert
* [[User:Maxi71 | Massimiliano cannata]]
* Graeme Mcferren
* Sarawut Ninsawat
* Brent Wood (NIWA)
* Jorge Piera
* Alain Tamayo
* Maria Brovelli
* Add your name here

==Biodiversity/conservation projects and FOSS4G tools==

More and more Open Source is catching on Biodiversity and conservation projects. Most of them are publicly funded so most of the time all the source they develop is Open Source. Aditionally Biodiversity and conservation heavily rely on GIS and they have specific needs. From geospatial niche modeling to species distributions, occurrence catalog, etc, there is a lot to talk about!

If you are interested please add your names below...

'''Coming:'''

* Javier de la Torre (Vizzuality)
* Brent Wood (NIWA)
* [[Markus Neteler]]
* [[User:jesus| Jorge de Jesus]] (Plymouth Marine Laboratory)
* [[User:Aghisla|Anne Ghisla]]
* Add your name here

==Spatial Data Infrastructure==

A birds of a feather session about using open source for spatial data infrastructure. Come discuss implementation strategies, best practices, INSPIRE.

'''Who's coming:'''

* Sebastian Benthall (GeoNode)
* David Winslow (GeoNode)
* Ariel Núñez (GeoNode)
* David Jonglez
* [[Ricardo Pinho|Ricardo Pinho]]
* Hugo Pereira
* Maria Brovelli
* Add your name here

==Virtualization and Cloud Computing BoF==

Virtualization and Cloud Computing is growing fast on the GIS world, let's get together and talk about the use cases and share opinions and suggestions about how can we take the most out of this new technology!

If you are interested please add your name below...

'''Coming:'''
* [[Ricardo Pinho|Ricardo Pinho]]
* Hugo Pereira
* [[Sebastián Cruz|Sebastián Cruz]]
* Add your name here

==Spatial OLAP==

Spatial OLAP can be defined as a visual platform built especially to support rapid and easy spatiotemporal analysis and exploration of data following a multidimensional approach comprised of aggregation levels available in cartographic displays as well as in tabular and diagram displays. Let's talk about new improvements combining GIS and BI technologies.

If you are interested please add your name below...

'''Coming:'''
* [[Nuno Guerreiro|Nuno Guerreiro]]
* [[Mauricio Miranda]]
* Add your name here

==Flex Mapping (Alternatives to HTML)==

Flex is a highly productive, free, open source framework for building expressive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops, and operating systems.
OpenScales is an open source (LGPL) mapping framework written in ActionScript 3 and Flex that allows developers to building Rich Internet Mapping Applications.
There are alternatives to HTML mapping, let's discuss about them...

If you are interested please add your name below...

'''Coming:'''
* Sébastien Deleuze (OpenScales)
* Aurélien Barbier-Accary (OpenScales)
* Simon Lopez (OpenScales)
* Fabio Panettieri
* Add your name here

David Jonglez - As discussed previously with other parties, it would be interesting to plan this session in an other time schedule in order to allow a maximum of interested persons already involved in other sessions to participate. What do you think planning this session on tuesday, the 7th evening ? (I'm shure we'll find a place !)

FOSS4G 2010 Breakout Sessions

2010-08-30T18:26:55Z

Wiki-Maria antonia brovelli: /* Sensor Web BoF */

[[Category:FOSS4G]]
[[Category:FOSS4G2010]]

back to [[FOSS4G 2010]]

= Introduction =
During the [http://2010.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G2010 conference] in Barcelona, Spain, there will be conference rooms available for people to hold Breakout Sessions (aka Birds-of-a-Feather).

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

This year, Breakout Sessions sessions will be held on Wednesday 8th September ('''and possibly at other times as well - depending on interest'''). A number of rooms will be available. Most popular sessions will get bigger rooms.

'''Room allocation to be determined'''

==Organising Contact==
* [[Tyler Mitchell]]
* [[Mauricio Miranda]]
* Other volunteers welcome - sign up here!

==Timeslots Available==

At this stage, each room is scheduled for one hour between 18:00 to 19:00.

Remember the Gala Dinner is scheduled at 20:00.

=Room Assignments=
==Rooms Available==

{|class="wikitable" border="1"
! width="150"|Room
! width="400"|Wednesday 08
! width="400"|Contact
|-
| Room 4 (75 pax)
|
|
|-
| Room 5 (250 pax)
|
|
|-
| Room 6 (320 pax)
|
|
|-
| Room 8 (100 pax)
|
|
|-
| Room 11 (78 pax)
|
|
|-
| Room 12 (90 pax)
|
|
|}

= Proposed Topics =

* Add yours below...

==Web Client (OpenLayers/GeoExt)==

The first half of this session will be focused on OpenLayers, and the second half will focus on GeoExt. We can decide on topics at the start of each session, but we'll likely cover ideas for OpenLayers 3.0/GeoExt 1.0, getting more developers involved, and just some general Q/A time.

'''Coming:'''

* Tim Schaub
* Eric Lemoine
* David Jonglez - for the first half, at least
* Florin Iosub
* Xurxo Méndez
* [[Ricardo Pinho|Ricardo Pinho]]
* [[Nuno Guerreiro|Nuno Guerreiro]]
* Hugo Pereira

==Spatial Databases BoF==

Relational and non-relational persistence layers, let's get together and talk about interoperability, appropriate use cases, architecture and where we should be moving the spatial persistence state-of-the-art!

'''Coming:'''

* Paul Ramsey (PostGIS)
* Nicklas Avén (PostGIS)
* Brent Wood (NIWA)
* Peter Baumann (Jacobs University / rasdaman)
* Vincent Picavet (Oslandia/PostGIS)
* [[Nuno Guerreiro|Nuno Guerreiro]]
* Olivier Courtin (PostGIS)
* Hugo Pereira

==WPS BoF==

Several presentation on Web Processing selected
for presentation at FOSS4G2010 indicates a growing
interest amongst the communities.

If you are interested please add your names below...

'''Who's coming:'''

* Venkatesh Raghavan
* [[Markus Neteler]]
* [[Daniel Kastl]]
* Maria Brovelli
* [[Ian Turton]]
* [[Gerald Fenoy]]
* Nicolas Bozon
* [[Jody Garnett]]
* [[User:fpenarru | Fran Peñarrubia]]
* [[User:MarkusSchneider | Markus Schneider]]
* Luca Delucchi
* Milan Antonovic
* [[User:Maxi71 | Massimiliano cannata]]
* Luca Casagrande
* [[User:Rajsingh| Raj Singh ]]
* [[User:Jesus|Jorge de Jesus]] (Plymouth Marine Laboratory)
* Bertrand Gervais
* [[User:Schpidi | Stephan Meissl]]
* Add your name here

==Sensor Web BoF==

The use of Sensor Web implementations has constantly increased during the last years.

If you are interested please add your names below...

'''Who's coming:'''

* Simon Jirka
* Marjorie Robert
* [[User:Maxi71 | Massimiliano cannata]]
* Graeme Mcferren
* Sarawut Ninsawat
* Brent Wood (NIWA)
* Jorge Piera
* Alain Tamayo
* Maria Brovelli
* Add your name here

==Biodiversity/conservation projects and FOSS4G tools==

More and more Open Source is catching on Biodiversity and conservation projects. Most of them are publicly funded so most of the time all the source they develop is Open Source. Aditionally Biodiversity and conservation heavily rely on GIS and they have specific needs. From geospatial niche modeling to species distributions, occurrence catalog, etc, there is a lot to talk about!

If you are interested please add your names below...

'''Coming:'''

* Javier de la Torre (Vizzuality)
* Brent Wood (NIWA)
* [[Markus Neteler]]
* [[User:jesus| Jorge de Jesus]] (Plymouth Marine Laboratory)
* [[User:Aghisla|Anne Ghisla]]
* Add your name here

==Spatial Data Infrastructure==

A birds of a feather session about using open source for spatial data infrastructure. Come discuss implementation strategies, best practices, INSPIRE.

'''Who's coming:'''

* Sebastian Benthall (GeoNode)
* David Winslow (GeoNode)
* Ariel Núñez (GeoNode)
* David Jonglez
* [[Ricardo Pinho|Ricardo Pinho]]
* Hugo Pereira
* Add your name here

==Virtualization and Cloud Computing BoF==

Virtualization and Cloud Computing is growing fast on the GIS world, let's get together and talk about the use cases and share opinions and suggestions about how can we take the most out of this new technology!

If you are interested please add your name below...

'''Coming:'''
* [[Ricardo Pinho|Ricardo Pinho]]
* Hugo Pereira
* [[Sebastián Cruz|Sebastián Cruz]]
* Add your name here

==Spatial OLAP==

Spatial OLAP can be defined as a visual platform built especially to support rapid and easy spatiotemporal analysis and exploration of data following a multidimensional approach comprised of aggregation levels available in cartographic displays as well as in tabular and diagram displays. Let's talk about new improvements combining GIS and BI technologies.

If you are interested please add your name below...

'''Coming:'''
* [[Nuno Guerreiro|Nuno Guerreiro]]
* [[Mauricio Miranda]]
* Add your name here

==Flex Mapping (Alternatives to HTML)==

Flex is a highly productive, free, open source framework for building expressive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops, and operating systems.
OpenScales is an open source (LGPL) mapping framework written in ActionScript 3 and Flex that allows developers to building Rich Internet Mapping Applications.
There are alternatives to HTML mapping, let's discuss about them...

If you are interested please add your name below...

'''Coming:'''
* Sébastien Deleuze (OpenScales)
* Aurélien Barbier-Accary (OpenScales)
* Simon Lopez (OpenScales)
* Fabio Panettieri
* Add your name here

David Jonglez - As discussed previously with other parties, it would be interesting to plan this session in an other time schedule in order to allow a maximum of interested persons already involved in other sessions to participate. What do you think planning this session on tuesday, the 7th evening ? (I'm shure we'll find a place !)

FOSS4G 2010 Breakout Sessions

2010-08-21T15:38:53Z

Wiki-Maria antonia brovelli: /* Participant List for WPS BoF */

[[Category:FOSS4G]]
[[Category:FOSS4G2010]]

= Introduction =
During the [http://2010.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G2010 conference] in Barcelona, Spain, there will be conference rooms available for people to hold Breakout Sessions (once Birds-of-a-Feather).

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

This year, Breakout Sessions sessions will be held on Wednesday 8th September.

A number of rooms are available. First ones in get the rooms.

==Organising Contact==
* Tyler Mitchell (?!?!)

==Timeslots Available==

At this stage, each room is scheduled for one hour between 18:00 to 19:00.

Remember the gala dinner is scheduled at 20:00

==Rooms Available==
...

==WPS BoF==

Several presentation on Web Processing selected
for presentation at FOSS4G2010 indicates a growing
interest amongst the communities.

I would like to propose an WPS Bof (Breakout Session)
on 8th September 2010 between 18:00 to 19:00.

If you are interested please add your names below

=== Participant List for WPS BoF ===

* Venkatesh Raghavan
* [[Markus Neteler]]
* [[Daniel Kastl]]
* Maria Brovelli
* Add your name here

Education Committee Work Program

2008-01-22T07:34:26Z

Wiki-Maria antonia brovelli:

2008 INITIATIVES

'''TASK A. DEVELOP EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL INVENTORY AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM. CURRENT TASKS:'''
# '''Develop a suggested tutorial creation standard for group review'''
## Subcommittee members: Ned Horning (American Museum of Natural History), Charlie Schweik, Alexander Stepanov, Maili Page (UMass, Amherst)
## 1/18/2008 status: Our proposal (pdf) is here: [[Media:A_Proposal_for_OSGEO_Edu_Authoring_Summary.pdf]]. An example of one tutorial (pdf format, 845KB) built through this process is here: [[Media:db_foss_m1.pdf]]. (We intend to move the license and authorship information to the top in a next version).

'''TASK B. BUILD OSGEO EDU CONTENT FOLLOWING THE PROPOSED STANDARD IN TASK A.
# '''Authors who have courses listed in the [[Educational_Content_Inventory]] page - could you consider doing this? '''
## If you are willing to do so - list your names here:
### Charlie Schweik, Sasha Stepanov, Maili Page: QGIS tutorials
### Others?
# '''Authors who have made [[Commitments_for_New_Material_Development]] - could you consider doing this?
## If you are willing to do so - list your names here:
### Charlie Schweik, Ned Horning, Maili Page: Remote Sensing tutorials
### Maria Antonia Brovelli, Markus Neteler: Exploring and interpolating fields

'''TASK C. DEVELOP A FREEGIS BOOK. CURRENT TASKS:'''
# '''Victor, what are the current tasks here? '''
## Subcommittee members: Victor Olaya (lead), Landon Blake, who else?
## Status?
## Could the book chapters be converted to the XML standard proposed above?

'''TASK D. DEVELOP OSGEO EDU COURSES? CURRENT TASKS:'''
# '''This was suggested by Venka, and he proposed two:'''
## Intro to OSGeo Desktop GIS Software and
## Introduction to OSGeo Webmapping software.
## Subcomittee chair? '''Any takers to lead this effort?'''
## Subcommittee members? '''Anyone?'''
## Additional thought: Is there any opportunity to develop some collaborations around what people have proposed to do on our [[Commitments_for_New_Material_Development]] page?

'''TASK E. DEVELOP A PACKAGED CD FOR UBUNTU TO LAUNCH AT FOSS4G2008 in Cape Town
# '''This was proposed by Gavin and involves others in OSGeo not just education group.
## '''Gavin's ideas''': One-click installation for Linux, Windows or Mac; Integrated software stack so teachers and learners have to launch a minimal number of applications; Simplified and customised GUIs to lower the entry threshold (for teachers to teach curriculum requirements of GIS; for teachers to use GIS to teach geography and other subjects; for learners to use for hands-on work); Free, integrated global and local data package; excellent documentation; framework for local contributors to structure and contribute exercises, lessons, etc; central website for resources; possible advanced options for network deployment, more sophisticated users, 'computer studies' learners (i.e. developers), school web map services, etc.
## Subcommittee chair: '''Any volunteers?'''
## Subcommittee members: '''Any takers to try and organize such an effort?'''

'''TASK F. DEVELOP A MULTILANGUAGE OSGEO DICTIONARY'''
# This was proposed by Marcus Neteler with several others supporting the idea
# Project working page is here: [[OSGeo_Multilanguage_Dictionary]]
# Subcommittee chair: '''Any volunteers?'''
# Subcommittee members:

 
'''COMPLETED TASKS FOR 2007-08'''

# '''Establish a wiki page with an initial inventory of available educational content and commitments for new material'''
## Deadline: October 31, 2007;
## Outcome: '''Completed with 16 entries listed on the [[Educational_Content_Inventory]] page.'''
## [[Commitments_for_New_Material_Development]]

# '''Investigate, vote on, and recommend a content management system for educational ''modules'''''
## Deadline: October 31, 2007.
## Outcome: '''Task deferred and focus on develop tutorial using Wiki/Moodle strategy.''' We had a series of discussions on various approaches toward this over the group email list, but really reached no consensus. I (Charlie Schweik) concluded that given we have an existing wiki and also a Moodle site established, we should try to move toward establishing a recommended digital format and structure for future tutorials and where possible we try to convert old tutorials to this format (I intend to do so with my tutorials). For this reason, I took this item off the current to-do list.
## Subcommittee members: Ben Alden; Victor Olaya; Charlie Schweik; Scott Mitchell; Venka; Maria Brovelli; Rob Braswell
## [[Edu Concent Management Platform Decision]]
## More detail: coming soon. But this task is for people to investigate various options that have been identified. These include (1) the Moodle example presented by Arnulf [http://www.osgeo.net/moodle]; (2) the use of the wiki system (Tyler showed me some additional functionality after our BOF meeting); (3) Rice connexions [http://cnx.org]; (4) [http://www.eoearth.org/ Encyclopedia of Earth]; (4) [http://lulu.com lulu.com]; (5) [http://cosl.usu.edu/projects/educommons/ EduCommons]. The group agreed that at this juncture we need to be inclusive and work with the needs of various content providers. So some material may be stored on an OSGeo platform with the capability for new derivative works, or it may just be links to external resources we are aware of. This subcommittee task is to figure out a recommended strategy within the next month (or less).

[[Category:Education]]

Commitments for New Material Development

2007-11-03T09:38:45Z

Wiki-Maria antonia brovelli:

'''Colleagues: Please list here any plans you have to develop content over the next year.'''

* Title: Introduction to remote sensing using FOSS. 
** Author(s): Ned Horning, Charlie Schweik 
** Estimated date of completion: Not sure... Summer 2008? 

* Title: Training Notes on Spatial Data Sharing using FOSS 2008 
** Author(s): Venkatesh Raghavan, Shinji Masumoto, Sarawut Ninsawat, Daisuke Yoshida, Susumu Nonogaki, Add yourself 
** We are working on 2008 version of our training note listed in the URL: http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Educational_Content_Inventory
** We are interested in updating, improving and enhancing the Training Note and also the Mandriva 2007 or 2008 FOSS4G Toolkit CD that comes with the training note. If you are interested to join this effort please add you came and contact at venka at osgeo dot org
** Estimated date of completion: Spring 2008? 

* Title: Tutorials for using FOSS4G tools employed in 4th year student projects, Carleton University
** Authors: Students in GEOM4008 "Advanced Topics in Geographic Information Systems"
** The students in my class are starting to work on their term projects, in which they are required to demonstrate a prototype workflow using all FOSS4G tools, and they are additionally required to develop tutorial materials which illustrate the steps required in such a workflow. To the extent that these are generally applicable, they will be released for re-use under a suitable license (e.g. CC). Alternatively/additionally, I expect at least some of these to be applicable to the above-listed project.
** Estimated data of completion: projects due December 2007, probably available online within a month after that

* Title: E-course on FOSS GIS
** Author: Moritz Lennert
** I'm planning on elaborating an e-course to accompany a four-month training course on FOSS GIS, mainly based on GRASS, but also others.
** Language: French
** Estimated date of completion: Spring 2008 (course begins April 14th, content might evolve throughout the course)

 
* Title: Exploring and interpolating fields
** Authors: Maria Antonia Brovelli and Markus Neteler
** Topic: Many observations are point-wise (i.e.: terrain height, temperature, humidity, pollutant concentration,...) but generally what we need is the corresponding continuous thematic maps. For instance, if we have leveling or LIDAR measurements, we could be interested, for many applications (hydrology, ecology, radio and radar propagation, geoscience, landscape planning, terrain-guided navigation systems, ...), in the corresponding land elevation field and its representation, the digital terrain model. In the theoretical part, we will teach how to explore spatial data (data distribution, global trends, spatial autocorrelation, clues for outlier presence) and how to discriminate (by means of cross-validation techniques) the best method to interpolate them to obtain the best digital model of the corresponding field. All the exercises and the examples of the course are at the moment solved with a proprietary GIS and will be also solved by means of GRASS.
** Language: English
** Estimated date of completion: summer 2008
 
 
'''Colleagues: Please list here any plans you have to develop content over the next year.'''

[[Category:Education]]

OSGeo education interested participants

2007-10-06T09:30:02Z

Wiki-Maria antonia brovelli: /* Contributors by Time Zones */

== Contributors by Interest ==
The following are individuals who have self-identified themselves as interested in contributing or assisting with [[Education and Curriculum Committee]] projects. You are welcome to add yourself to the list and identify areas that you are particular familiar with or interested in contributing to.

* [[User:Punkish | Puneet Kishor]] (chair) (TZ GMT-6)
* [[User: ajolma | Ari Jolma]] (TZ GMT+2) (graduate level education MS, PhD; academic research; primary school education)
* [[User:Neteler | Markus Neteler ]] (TZ GMT+1) (general training/education materials; educational datasets)
* Venkatesh Raghavan (TZ GMT+9)(training/education material; educational datasets, software packaging, translation, e-learning Course Management Systems, Moodle,Certification Mechanisms, experience in international training)
* [[User:Schweik | Charlie Schweik]] (TZ GMT-5) (undergraduate and graduate level education; academic research on open source collaboration, public sector information technology, natural resource management)
* [[User:Pnaciona|Pericles Nacionales]] (general training/education materials; conservation and natural resource management)
* Ned Horning (Winter: GMT-5 Summer: GMT -4) (Interested in promoting open source software development and integrating open source into the conservation community)
* [[User:Tmitchell | Tyler Mitchell]] (TZ GMT-8) (interested in workshop material and curriculum development for high school through to university)
* Gary Watry (TZ GMT-5)(Interested in using Free Open Source Software (FOSS) to replace teaching proprietary Off The Shelf Software (COTS)in education, Preparing material for course work at the Graduate and Under-Grad level and then moving down into the High School level through AP and Honors courses.)
* [[User:Arnulf Christl | Arnulf Christl]] (TZ GMT+2) (Experience as GIS instructor for fulltime workshops, trainings and courses. Organization of commercial training courses with Open Source Geospatial Software. Preparation of course and presentation material, tutorials). (Interest in enhancing presentation material, publishing under Free license, in time hardcopy production, maintenance and update of content just as any OS dev project)
* [[User:Scw | Shaun Walbridge]] (TZ GMT-8) (academic research on open source collaboration; general training/education materials; educational datasets)
* [[User:Perrygeo | Matthew Perry]] (TZ GMT-8) (primarily insterested in workshops/lab materials for university students, NGOs and using open source software to demonstrate all fundamental aspects of GIS (theory and practice). Also interested in seeing 'official' training courses and certification)
* [[User:ianturton|Ian Turton]] : Penn State Uni, State College, developed Open Web Mapping course at Uni of Leeds, UK [http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/courses/postgrad/geog5780/] now modifying it for PennState. ianturton at gmail com [http://www.geovista.psu.edu/members/turton/index.html work] [http://pennspace.blogspot.com/ blog]
* [[User:Aaronr | Aaron Racicot]] (TZ GMT-8) (Interested in fostering more collaboration with academia through the introduction of open source GIS in the curriculum. Mainly interested in Undergraduate and Graduate level education and industry (NGO's and for-profit) collaboration. Certification is also an interest.)
* [[User:helena| Helena Mitasova]] (TZ GMT-5) NCSU, Raleigh,NC, GRASS PSC member, interested in graduate level education and research, development of tutorials and workshops, educational dataset, publishing books and journal articles
* [[User:maria | Maria Antonia Brovelli]] (TZ GMT+1) (Polytechnic of Milan and Polytecnic of Zurich, interested in Undergraduate, Graduate and Doctorat level education; academic research on new algorithms developed within open source GIS, on public sector information technology and NSDI, on environment and territory management)
* [[User:volaya| Victor Olaya]] (TZ GMT+1) Spanish Free GIS Book PSC Member. University of Extremadura, Spain. Sextante Proyect [http://www.sextantegis.com]. Interested in creating a free GIS book in spanish and english, and in finding out how both the spanish and the english teams can collaborate and help each other.
* [[User:Maxi71| Massimiliano Cannata]] (TZ GMT+1) (Institute of Earth Sciences - University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland, Graduate and Continuing education; research and development in the field of Web-GIS and Environmental Modelling; consultant for the public administration authorities on environment, land and natural resources management)

== Contributors by Time Zones ==
This should help in planning meetings. If you are not here yet, please add your info, or let me know and I will do so. Going from East to West, we have --

* TZ GMT+9
** Venkatesh Raghavan
* TZ GMT+2
** Ari Jolma
** Arnulf Christl
* TZ GMT+1
** Markus Neteler
** Maria Antonia Brovelli
** Massimiliano Cannata
* TZ GMT-5
** Gary Watry
** Ian Turton
** Ned Horning
** Charlie Schweik, Maria Fernandez, Alexander Stepanov
* TZ GMT-6
** Puneet Kishor
** Pericles Nacionales
* TZ GMT-8
** Tyler Mitchell
** Shaun Walbridge
** Matthew Perry
** Aaron Racicot

[[Category:Education]]

OSGeo education interested participants

2007-10-05T06:19:24Z

Wiki-Maria antonia brovelli: /* Contributors by Interest */

== Contributors by Interest ==
The following are individuals who have self-identified themselves as interested in contributing or assisting with [[Education and Curriculum Committee]] projects. You are welcome to add yourself to the list and identify areas that you are particular familiar with or interested in contributing to.

* [[User:Punkish | Puneet Kishor]] (chair) (TZ GMT-6)
* [[User: ajolma | Ari Jolma]] (TZ GMT+2) (graduate level education MS, PhD; academic research; primary school education)
* [[User:Neteler | Markus Neteler ]] (TZ GMT+1) (general training/education materials; educational datasets)
* Venkatesh Raghavan (TZ GMT+9)(training/education material; educational datasets, software packaging, translation, e-learning Course Management Systems, Moodle,Certification Mechanisms, experience in international training)
* [[User:Schweik | Charlie Schweik]] (TZ GMT-5) (undergraduate and graduate level education; academic research on open source collaboration, public sector information technology, natural resource management)
* [[User:Pnaciona|Pericles Nacionales]] (general training/education materials; conservation and natural resource management)
* Ned Horning (Winter: GMT-5 Summer: GMT -4) (Interested in promoting open source software development and integrating open source into the conservation community)
* [[User:Tmitchell | Tyler Mitchell]] (TZ GMT-8) (interested in workshop material and curriculum development for high school through to university)
* Gary Watry (TZ GMT-5)(Interested in using Free Open Source Software (FOSS) to replace teaching proprietary Off The Shelf Software (COTS)in education, Preparing material for course work at the Graduate and Under-Grad level and then moving down into the High School level through AP and Honors courses.)
* [[User:Arnulf Christl | Arnulf Christl]] (TZ GMT+2) (Experience as GIS instructor for fulltime workshops, trainings and courses. Organization of commercial training courses with Open Source Geospatial Software. Preparation of course and presentation material, tutorials). (Interest in enhancing presentation material, publishing under Free license, in time hardcopy production, maintenance and update of content just as any OS dev project)
* [[User:Scw | Shaun Walbridge]] (TZ GMT-8) (academic research on open source collaboration; general training/education materials; educational datasets)
* [[User:Perrygeo | Matthew Perry]] (TZ GMT-8) (primarily insterested in workshops/lab materials for university students, NGOs and using open source software to demonstrate all fundamental aspects of GIS (theory and practice). Also interested in seeing 'official' training courses and certification)
* [[User:ianturton|Ian Turton]] : Penn State Uni, State College, developed Open Web Mapping course at Uni of Leeds, UK [http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/courses/postgrad/geog5780/] now modifying it for PennState. ianturton at gmail com [http://www.geovista.psu.edu/members/turton/index.html work] [http://pennspace.blogspot.com/ blog]
* [[User:Aaronr | Aaron Racicot]] (TZ GMT-8) (Interested in fostering more collaboration with academia through the introduction of open source GIS in the curriculum. Mainly interested in Undergraduate and Graduate level education and industry (NGO's and for-profit) collaboration. Certification is also an interest.)
* [[User:helena| Helena Mitasova]] (TZ GMT-5) NCSU, Raleigh,NC, GRASS PSC member, interested in graduate level education and research, development of tutorials and workshops, educational dataset, publishing books and journal articles
* [[User:maria | Maria Antonia Brovelli]] (TZ GMT+1) (Polytechnic of Milan and Polytecnic of Zurich, interested in Undergraduate, Graduate and Doctorat level education; academic research on new algorithms developed within open source GIS, on public sector information technology and NSDI, on environment and territory management)

== Contributors by Time Zones ==
This should help in planning meetings. If you are not here yet, please add your info, or let me know and I will do so. Going from East to West, we have --

* TZ GMT+9
** Venkatesh Raghavan
* TZ GMT+2
** Ari Jolma
** Arnulf Christl
* TZ GMT+1
** Markus Neteler
* TZ GMT-5
** Gary Watry
** Ian Turton
** Ned Horning
** Charlie Schweik, Maria Fernandez, Alexander Stepanov
* TZ GMT-6
** Puneet Kishor
** Pericles Nacionales
* TZ GMT-8
** Tyler Mitchell
** Shaun Walbridge
** Matthew Perry
** Aaron Racicot

[[Category:Education]]

Italiano

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Wiki-Maria antonia brovelli: /* Gli interessati */

[[Local_Chapters|<< Back to the Local Chapters page]]

== Comunità GFOSS italiana ==
E' attualmente in corso un tentativo di proporre agli utenti di lingua italiana la creazione di un Local Chapter di Osgeo.
La discussione è sulla mailing list di GFOSS.it :
* La mailing list: http://www.faunalia.com/pipermail/gfoss/

Si invita le persone interessate ad aggiungersi alla lista alla voce [[#Gli interessati]].

== Links==
''(siti in italiano)''

* Il portale: http://www.gfoss.it
* Il Wiki: http://wiki.gfoss.it
* La mailing list: http://www.faunalia.com/pipermail/gfoss/
* Il canale IRC: #gfoss su irc.freenode.net irc://irc.freenode.net/#gfoss
* [http://wiki.gfoss.it/index.php/PagineJabber Qui] gli indirizzi Jabber della comunità GFOSS italiana.

==Gli interessati==
* Paolo Cavallini
* Lorenzo Becchi
* Stefano Costa
* Maria Antonia Brovelli

== Guidelines ==
=== Chapter Roles ===

* Provide member networking opportunities for support and job opportunities - '''OK'''
* Software Internationalization and Localization - '''OK'''
* Development of prototype applications to demonstrate Open Source geospatial capabilities to local and regional audiences - '''OK'''
* Software Packaging and Customization for local and regional needs - '''OK''' ( GFOSS live CD)
* Training, Support and Development of e-Learning Contents in local languages - '''OK'''
* Support Open standards and Open access to geospatial data in region '''OK'''
* Promoting OSGeo and enhancing visibility in various forums

=== Chapter Responsibilities ===

* “OSGeo Chapter” officially represents OSGeo and is formally recognized as OSGeo Project.
* “OSGeo Chapter” must support the OSGeo Mission and Objectives of OSGeo.
* “OSGeo Chapter” must hold regular meetings (at least annual) and provide annual report of activities to chapter membership and OSGeo Board. '''OK'''
* “OSGeo Chapter” will not entail any financial commitment from or on-behalf of OSGeo. OSGeo will also not provide any budget assistance to the “OSGeo Chapter”.
* “OSGeo Chapter” is encouraged develop and maintain “Directory Listing” of companies, people, universities and organizations involved with or using OSGeo projects.
* “OSGeo Chapter” must strive at networking with organizations to enlist participation and support for OSGeo.
* OSGeo reserves the right to terminate its relation with an “OSGeo Chapter” if OSGeo has reasons to believe that the activities of the “OSGeo Chapter” are contrary or detrimental to the Mission and Objectives of OSGeo.

===Chapter Formation ===

In order to form a chapter, the following steps should be taken:
# "OSGeo Chapter" should self-organize (for instance in the OSGeo wiki, via OSGeo mailing list, etc), seeking to determine if a critical mass of interest exists to justify a chapter. - '''READY'''
# "OSGeo Chapter" should prepare a mission and objectives indicating the scope of the planned chapter (geographic or linquistic extent for instance). - '''READY''' (lang:it)
# “OSGeo Chapter” should propose an official representative to liaise with the OSGeo Board. If accepted by the board, the representative will be an officer of OSGeo. - '''TODO'''
# “OSGeo Chapter” should submit an official expression of interest to form a chapter to the OSGeo board, listing initial members, mission, representative and other supporting information. - '''TODO'''
# The OSGeo board shall then consider passing a motion forming the chapter, and designating the liason officer. - '''TODO'''

In considering the formation of new OSGeo chapters, the board will consider issues including:
* Does the mandate (geographically or linguistically) conflict with other existing chapters or chapters-in-formation? - '''NO'''
* Does the chapter appear to have sufficient interest to justify official formation? - '''YES'''
* Does the chapter appear to be open to broad membership, and representative of the target geographic or linguistic community? (eg. if a chapter had the objective to cover all Spanish speakers, it would be inappropriate if the only interest demonstrated was from one country) - '''YES'''

[[Category:Local Chapters]]