Call for Workshops and Tutorials due 15 October

07 October 2008, 8:02pm

The first full day of the GSDI 11 conference is a day of concurrent workshop and tutorial offerings. GSDI-11 invites proposals for workshops and extended tutorials to be offered on Monday 15 June 2009 in Rotterdam. All workshops and tutorials will be open to all GSDI 11 conference attendees at no additional cost.

Workshops and tutorials are expected to be instructional and address skills or a knowledge base germane to the development of spatial data infrastructure. Spatial data infrastructure is broadly defined here as the technology, policies, standards, human resources, and related activities necessary to acquire, process, distribute, use, maintain, and preserve spatial data. The infrastructure incorporates any and all sectors including commercial, government, NGO and non-profit sectors and applications may range from local to global scales.

Workshops with participatory aspects will be preferred over straight lectures. The tutorials and workshops should be led by recognized experts in the material to be taught.

Each workshop or tutorial may be proposed for a single 90-minute session. A typical conference participant may register for up to four 90-minute workshops or tutorials during the workshop day. A half-hour coffee break will occur in the middle of the morning and in the middle of the afternoon with a lunch break at mid-day. Some workshops may be invited to be offered twice during the day to avoid conflicts with other popular concurrent workshops. Instructors are unpaid. An instructor whose proposal to offer a workshop is accepted will be expected to register for the conference before 1 January 2009.

Facilities for Workshops

All workshop rooms will be arranged in classroom style and have tables for participants where they may place laptop computers. All rooms are provided with standard computer projectors for instructors. Wireless computer access is available for instructors and students but exercises or materials on CDs are highly advisable. No computer labs are available in the World Trade Center of Rotterdam so workshop participants will be advised to bring a PC or Mac laptop in the event that hands-on computer exercises are utilized by instructors. Rooms will be sufficiently sized to handle the pre-enrolled participants as well as any last minute enrollees.

Submission Requirements

If you are interested in submitting a workshop proposal, please provide the following information:

1. Proposed Workshop Title

2. Organizer/Contact Person (name, title, address, country, phone, fax, e-mail)

3. Workshop Description and Goals (250 words or less suitable for posting on the web. Please include in the description if the session will involve lecture, hands-on exercises, group exercises, etc., whether any take-home materials will be supplied and indicate whether participants should bring a laptop computer or anything else to the workshop.)

4. Workshop Topics (90 Minutes)

5. Tentative Workshop Instructor(s) (list name, title, affiliation and indicate whether confirmed at this time)

6. Intended Audience and any Required Skills or Interests (technicians, managers, policymakers, etc., whether introductory or advanced, what skills if any participants should possess)

Please provide the above headings and your responses in the body of an email (NOT as an attached file).

Descriptions of workshops offered at past GSDI Conferences may be found at the links below.

Attendees will be asked to evaluate the quality of content and instruction of each workshop.

Submission Deadline

15 October 2008

Submit your proposal on or before 15 October 2008 to Harlan Onsrud at onsrud@gsdi.org with a copy to Alan Stevens at astevens@gsdi.org text.

GSDI 11 Conference web site

GSDI 10 workshop descriptions

GSDI 9 workshop descriptions

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