Sydney, Australia. 2 March 2009.
In response to requests from presenters, the deadline for the FOSS4G 2009
workshop and tutorial abstract submissions has been extended by one week, to
Monday 9 March 2009. If you are considering submitting a workshop, please
notify your intent by emailing the Workshop/Tutorial coordinator, Mark
Leslie m a r k . l e s l i e AT l i s a s o f t . c o m
About FOSS4G
FOSS4G, held 20-23 October 2009 in Sydney, Australia, is the international
"gathering of tribes" for open source geospatial communities. The theme for
the FOSS4G 2009 conference will be "User Driven". Users and developers are
encouraged present their latest projects and software to demonstrate the
power of Open Source for system integration through a series of workshop
sessions and tutorial presentations. Session participants should expect to
see presentations on both geospatial open source and propriety software
integration along with pure open source solutions.
Workshops
Workshops are expected to be a hands-on experience with participants
following along with the instructor, working directly with the application
under discussion. All workshop rooms will be equipped with computers (two
students sharing one system) to support this vision. Workshop computers will
pre-installed with a basic image containing standard packages running in a
Windows XP environment. A projector will be provided for each computer room
for use within a workshop. Instructors will need to discuss pre-installation
requirements with the Conference Organising Committee if required.
Workshops are expected to require considerable effort to create, with past
experience showing that three days of preparation per hour of presentation
are required to produce a high quality workshop. Additionally you will be
expected to develop material for attendees to take home with them, such as
handouts, workbook, CD-ROMs etc. Due to the effort involved in producing and
presenting a workshop, instructors will receive a single complementary
registration to the conference for delivering a workshop.
All workshop submissions will be considered, but particular interest will be
shown in the following topics:
* Practical Introduction to ____
* Integrating Open Source
* Spatial Data Privacy and Security
Tutorials
Tutorial rooms will not be equipped with computers, however presenters may
optionally make use of delegate laptops and the FOSS4G LiveDVD.
At least 80% of delegates are expected to be carrying a laptop and FOSS4G
LiveDVDs will be given to all delegates.
Preference will be given to hands-on tutorials.
Any hands-on aspects to a tutorial will be the responsibility of the
presenter and needs to be described in the tutorial description. Presenters
making use of the Live DVD or Climate Change Integration Plugfest (CCIP)
will be expected to contribute to testing pre-releases to ensure material
and software is properly installed. To discuss your requirements for
LiveDVD, please contact the organising committee:
http://2009.foss4g.org/contacts/.
All tutorial submissions will be considered, but particular interest will be
shown in the following topics:
* Practical introductions
* Interoperability
* Spatial data accuracy
* Spatial data privacy
* Spatial data security
* System implementation
* Data migration
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Submission instructions and templates are available at
http://2009.foss4g.org/workshops/and http://2009.foss4g.org/tutorials/.
The deadline for workshop / tutorial submissions is March 9, 2009
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