FOSS4G Conference Call for Workshops

18 January 2010, 4:10pm

Barcelona, Spain. 15 January 2010 - The Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) conference is pleased to announce a Call for Workshops and Tutorials for the 2010
conference, being held September 6-9, 2010, in Barcelona, Spain.

FOSS4G is the international "gathering of tribes" for open source geospatial communities. Users and developers are encouraged to present
their latest projects and software to emonstrate 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
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Workshops are expected to be 3 hour hands-on experiences with participants following along with the instructor, working directly with the application under discussion. All workshop rooms will be equipped with computers to support this vision. 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:

* Practical Introduction to FOSS4G software
* Integrating Open Source
* Spatial Data Infrastructure

Tutorials

Tutorials are 90 minute sessions during the regular presentations portion of the conference. Tutorial rooms will not be equipped with computers. However, presenters may make use of delegate laptops and the FOSS4G LiveDVD.

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 LiveDVD 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 LiveDVD community at the link below.

All tutorial submissions will be considered, but particular interest will be shown in the following topics:

* Practical Introductions
* Interoperability
* Integration
* Performance tuning
* SDI services
* Mobile/phone applications

Application form

Follow the link below to submit your proposals.
Please add a 300 word abstract, in plain text format (pasting a text with style markup could make the process fail).

The deadline for workshop / tutorial submissions is January 30.

Submit your proposals here

LiveDVD community

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