GSDI 12 Call for Workshops and Tutorials Reminder

01 February 2010, 7:32am

Workshiop Proposal Submission Deadline - extended to 19 February 2010

The morning of the opening day of the GSDI 12 conference (19 October 2010) is dedicated to concurrent workshop and tutorial offerings. GSDI 12 invites attendees to submit proposals for workshops and extended tutorials. Please note that all workshops and tutorials will be opened to all GSDI 12 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 many sectors including commercial, government, NGO and non-profit sectors; 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 proposed should be for a single 90-minute session. A typical conference participant may register for up to two 90-minute workshops or tutorials. A half-hour coffee break will be arranged between the two workshop sessions. An instructor whose proposal to offer a workshop is accepted will be expected to register for the conference before 1 August 2010. Please note that there will be no remunerations to instructors and they should be solely responsible for the running of workshops and tutorials.

Facilities for Workshops

All workshop rooms will be arranged in classroom style and tables will be provided for participants to rest their laptop computers. All rooms are equiped with standard computer projectors. Although wireless computer access is available for instructors and students, workshop or tutorial materials should be prepared and stored in CDs or USB drives rather than via live downloads. No computer labs are available in the conference venue; as such, workshop participants are advised to bring their own laptops in the event that hands-on computer exercises are conducted by instructors. Rooms will be of sufficient size 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 indicate in the description if the session will involve lecture, hands-on exercises, group exercises, etc., and whether any take-home materials will be supplied. Moreover, please indicate whether participants should each bring a laptop computer or anything else to the workshop.)
4. Workshop Topics (90 Minutes)
5. Tentative Workshop Instructor(s) (please provide name, title, affiliation and indicate whether confirmed at the time of proposal submission)
7. Intended Audience and any prerequisite skills or interests required (technicians, managers, or policymakers, etc., whether it is pitched at introductory or advanced level, 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 (GSDI 9, GSDI 10, GSDI 11) may be found at the links below.

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

Submission Deadline

19 February 2010

Submit your proposal on or before 19 February 2010 to:

Harlan Onsrud at onsrud@spatial.maine.edu

with a copy to:

Alan Stevens at astevens@gsdi.org

GSDI-12 Call for Workshos

GSDI 11 Workshops

GSDI 10 Workshops

GSDI 9 Workshops

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