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FOSS4G2007 Governance

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This proposal has been adopted.
The FOSS4G 2007 conference shall be managed by the FOSS4G 2007 Conference Committee (which is distinct from the OSGeo Conference Committee). The discussions of the FOSS4G 2007 conference committee shall take place primarily on the public foss4g2007 mailing lists (at lists.refractions.net) and by conference calls. 
= Decision Making =
* All non-material decisions can be taken by the chair, or his delegates (including Sea to Sky).
* All material decisions must be passed by the committee, to ensure acceptance. In the interest of efficiency, absence of disagreement to a request will be interpreted as acquiescence.
* Material decisions where there is a split in opinion will be handled by a majority voting system.
* All material financial decisions must be accepted by the OSGeo board rep (ie, OSG has veto). So the committee can approve them "in principle" but the decision cannot be acted upon until the board rep actually signals it is OK (or vetoes it and returns it to discussion). 
* The conference committee may open some questions to the OSGeo Conference Committee or other bodies, but this will be a soliciation for feedback, and the decision will still be made by the FOSS4G 2007 Conference Committee. 
It will be up to the conference chair to decide what constitutes a material vs. a non-material change.
= Membership =
The FOSS4G 2007 conference committee initially consists of the following, and can be extended at
the will of the committee. 
* Victoria Committee
** Paul Ramsey (2007 Chair)
** Brian Low
** Dale Lutz
** Evert Kenk
** Jason Birch
** Olaf Niemann
** Tyler Mitchell
* 2006 Representatives
** Claude Philipona
** Luc Maurer
* OSGeo Representatives
** Jeff Mckenna (Conference Committee Chair)
** Frank Warmerdam (Board Representative)
Other interested parties are encouraged to join the FOSS4G2007 mailing list to keep track of activities, and to provide feedback. 
The OSGeo board of directors can replace the committee if it is determined to not be operating appropriately.
= Financial Commitments = 
As required, Tyler Mitchell, as an authorized officer of OSGeo, will sign contracts on behalf of OSGeo. Material financial decisions and contract commitments must be approved by the OSGeo board. 
Sea To Sky Meeting Management will maintain a working bank account for the conference from which
conference related financial activity will be operated. Sea to Sky will be responsible to provide
a detailed accounting of transactions on a regular basis to the FOSS4G 2007 conference committee, 
and the OSGeo Treasurer.
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FOSS4G2007 Music

Let's get a lot of suggestions in, then we'll sort them into a play order and allocate them to before-Opening and after-Closing. 
Themes of freedom, sharing, and looking to the future...
= Opening Plenary Music =
* Imagine, John Lennon
* Think, Aretha Franklin
* I'm Free, The Soupdragons
* One Love, Bob Marley
* One, U2
* Beautiful Day, U2
* Don't Stop (Thinking About Tomorrow), Fleetwood Mac
* You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet, BTO
* Taking Care of Business, BTO
* Jump, Van Halen
* Pusherman, Curtis Mayfield
* Voodoo Child (slight return), Jimi Hendrix
* Purple Haze, Jimi Hendrix
* Immigrant Song, Led Zeppelin
* Sympathy For the Devil, Rolling Stones
* Dio, Tenacious D
* Refugee, Tom Petty
* Won't Get Fools Again, The Who
* Tomoyasu Hotei - Battle Without Honor Or Humanity (Soundtrack Kill Bill) 
= Closing Plenary Music =
* One Place, Everything But the Girl
* The Price I Pay, Billy Bragg
* There is Power in a Union, Billy Bragg
* Departure Bay, Diana Krall
* Consequence Free, Great Big Sea
* Every Picture Tells a Story, Rod Stewart
* Life During Wartime, Talking Heads
* Freedom Rider, Traffic
* Vertigo, U2
* Won’t Forget These Days, Fury in the Slaughterhouse
* The Best Was Yet To Come, Brian Adams
= General Quiet Time =
Most of the time when we want music will be when folks are being seated. Here are a couple "ambient" background music podcast examples that are nice and long so they can be switched on and off without the obvious interruption of lyrics, etc.
* From a great Australian weekly podcast: Ultima Thule - Episode 667 Episode 668 Episode 637
* soma fm online station has some great groove, chill and space music that might fit in nicely
* Royalty free mixes, including rock, etc. from uniquetracks.com
* CC licensed mixes from Magnatune
* More interesting royalty free music from royaltyfreemusic.com
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FOSS4G2007 OSGeo Booth

Volunteers - sign up now, take a slot or two in the Schedule below...
== Venue Info ==
* OSGeo will be in the main exhibition hall, in a double sized booth that faces the rear of the hall (where some of the food/beverages will be). 
* The space immediately in front is emtpy and is the same size as the double booth. It will be clearer once I get a diagram together, but it could be used for a lounge or stands, etc. as well.
* We have booth spaces 16, 17, 18, 19 - with the general idea that 17/18 are not normal booths but mostly open space covering a 16x20 foot area.
* See room layout here.
* There will be 4-6 computer workstations set up as a public Internet Cafe. You can help by setting this up before the hall opens, see volunteer schedule below.
== Booth Timing ==
=== Set Up ===
* Move in: Monday, September 24th - 12:00 to 18:00
* Move out: Thursday, September 27th - 15:00 to 18:00 (tear down not permitted before 15:00)
=== Hall Hours ===
* Tuesday, September 25th - 12:00 to 18:00
* Wednesday, September 26th - 09:00 to 17:00
* Thursday, September 27th - 09:00 to 13:00
=== Volunteers to help ===
* Michael Gerlek
* Dean Mikkelsen
* Mateusz Loskot - available from Sep 21th, willing to help in any tasks, etc.
* Tyler Mitchell - I'm also doing the coordination with the conference centre to set up and order equipment, etc.
* Arnulf - available throughout except for slots where she gives talks or moderates sessions.
* Lorenzo Becchi - available except for slots where he gives talks or moderates sessions.
* Jeroen Ticheler - available throughout except when giving talks or moderating other sessions.
* Add your name here...
== Schedule ==
Please add your name somewhere to the schedule below. At least 3 people are desired for each slot. You are more than welcome to sign up for more than 1 slot!
Time 	Volunteers 	More Volunteers	
Set Up: Monday - 12:00 to 13:00 	Tyler available until 12:30	 	
Tuesday - Computer Setup - 08:00 to 09:00	 	 	
12:00 to 14:00 	Tyler available until 13:30	 	
14:00 to 16:00 	 	 	
16:00 to 18:00 	 	 	
Wednesday - 09:00 to 12:00 	Tyler 11:00 to 12:00 	 	
12:00 to 14:00 	Tyler (tentative) 	 	
14:00 to 16:00 	Tyler (tentative) 	 	
16:00 to 17:00 	 	 	
Thursday - 09:00 to 11:00 	 	 	
11:00 to 13:00 	 	 	
Take down: 15:00 to 16:00 	Tyler (tentative) 	mpg 	
== Who Is Doing What? ==
* Tyler is doing general coordination for the booth, but isn't available the whole time
* John Graham will bring a small OptIPortal set up (2x3 displays, approx. 14 megapixels), with interactive 3d controller for showing off some 3D technology, i.e. ossimPlanet
* Aaron Racicot is bringing a bunch of the OSGeo branding stuff for the booth
* You are encourage to sign up above to help or at least to come and show demos of your favourite projects
* add more...
== Layout Ideas ==
Here is the layout for the booth space. A couple computer Internet cafe stations will be set up at the bottom of fringe of the booth.
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FOSS4G2007 Press Release

Victoria, BC, September 23, 2007
Over 600 software programmers and technology aficionados are converging on Victoria this week to attend the 2007 Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial conference. Open source is a concept sweeping the software industry, a form of collaborative programming and knowedge sharing that allows a global community of programmers to pool their efforts and build complex systems. The resulting software is often available for free, or at a cost far less than traditional software licensed from large corporations.
The geospatial software users attending this conference work with open source software to process and share maps, build online mapping sites, analyze satellite imagery data, calculate flood zones, gather GPS data, map the third world, and much more.
Conference chair Paul Ramsey sees Victoria as a hotbed of open source programming. “There are whole categories of software that depend on open source software written right here in Victoria. The provincial and federal governments have been very supportive and helped build a unique local industry over the past five years”, said Ramsey.
This year’s conference is sponsored by industry heavyweights like Google, Autodesk, ESRI and Leica Geosystems, as well as local firms with roots in the open source community. 
In addition to a packed schedule of presentations and classes throughout the week, the Open Street Map project will be having a community mapping session to map Victoria's streets on Sunday the 23rd, and the software developers will be huddling for an intense day of programming on Friday the 28th.
For more information on FOSS4G 2007, please contact Paul Ramsey at 250-885-0632 or email pramsey@foss4g2007.org.
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FOSS4G2007 Roomshare

Whoever is planning to attend FOSS4G needs to book their hotel soon. We have a block of rooms available for you to reserve from in order to SAVE MONEY and have a place to sleep. 
The number of rooms held for us will decrease if a significant amount are not used within a certain period of time. There is a chance that you will be stuck with a more expensive room, or in a non-central hotel, hostel or grassy patch to lay your head if you wait until the last minute.
You must phone or email to get the discounted rates, they will not appear as available rooms online. See this page for details and book as soon as you can to ensure getting a room and receiving a discount:
* http://www.foss4g2007.org/accommodations/
== Share a Room ==
For anyone who is looking for a roommate to further share costs, add your name/email below to connect with others. Be sure to list what dates you are looking for a room. Some hotels also have multi-bedroom suites that can also be shared, though not at reduced conference rates.
* Name, Date...
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FOSS4G2007 VCC Rooms

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= Introduction =
This page outlines the rooms available at the Victoria Conference Centre (VCC), and how they will be used during the FOSS4G2007 Conference. The information about the usage of the rooms is subject to change.
 (379KB PDF)
= Types of Use =
== BOFs ==
* Lecture Theatre
* Oak Bay 1
* Oak Bay 2
* Saanich 1
* Saanich 2
* Salon C
* Sooke
* View Royal
== Exhibits ==
* Salon A and 50% of Salon B
== Labs ==
* Colwood (40)
* Esquimalt (40)
== Miscellaneous ==
* Conference Committee's lounge - Victoria
* Conference Office - Metchosin
* Demonstration Theatre - Sidney
* Lunch(Monday) - Prefunction 1A
* Lunch(Tuesday-Thursday) - Exhibition Hall (Salon A/B)
* OSGeo AGM - Lecture Theatre
* Speaker's Ready Room - Sooke
* Storage - Langford
== Plenaries ==
* Salon C and 50% of Salon B
== Posters ==
* Prefunction 1A
== Presentations ==
=== Scenario 1 ===
* Lecture Theatre (400)
* Saanich (180)
* Oak Bay 1 (70)
* Oak Bay 2 (70) 
* View Royal (60)
Total seating capacity = 780
=== Scenario 2 ===
* Lecture Theatre (400)
* Salon C (400) 
* Saanich (180)
* Oak Bay 1 (70)
* Oak Bay 2 (70)
Total seating capacity = 1,120
== Workshops ==
* Oak Bay (84)
* Saanich (84)
* Colwood (40)
* Esquimalt (40)
* Sidney (40)
* View Royal (30)
= Rooms =
== Carson Hall ==
Hard walls can separate Salons, and a fabric wall can be used to divide a Salon in half.
=== Salon A ===
* Exhibit Hall, including Food & Beverage stations
=== Salon B ===
* will be draped in half
* along with Salon A, Exhibit Hall
* along with Salon C, Plenaries
=== Salon C ===
* along with Salon B, Plenaries
* Tuesday through Thursday - possibly for Presentations
* BOFs
== Colwood ==
Colwood can be split into Colwood 1 and Colwood 2, but we will use it as one room
* Monday - Workshops
* Tuesday through Thursday - Labs
 
== Esquimalt ==
* Monday - Workshops
* Tuesday through Thursday - Labs
== Langford ==
* Storage
== Lecture Theatre ==
* Monday - OSGeo AGM
* Tuesday through Thursday - Presentations
* BOFs
== Metchosin ==
* Conference Office
== Oak Bay ==
Oak Bay can be split into Oak Bay 1 and Oak Bay 2
* Monday - Workshops (full room)
=== Oak Bay 1 ===
* Tuesday through Thursday - Presentations
* BOFs
=== Oak Bay 2 ===
* Tuesday through Thursday - Presentations
* BOFs
== Prefunction 1 ==
=== Prefunction 1A ===
* Monday - Lunch for Workshop attendees
* Wednesday at lunchtime - Posters
=== Prefunction 1B ===
* Not Used
== Prefunction 2 ==
=== Prefunction 2A ===
* Not Used
=== Prefunction 2B ===
* Not Used
=== Prefunction 2C ===
* Not Used
== Saanich ==
Saanich can be split into Saanich 1 and Saanich 2
* Monday - Workshops (full room)
* Tuesday through Thursday - Presentations (full room)
=== Saanich 1 ===
* BOFs
=== Saanich 2 ===
* BOFs
== Sidney ==
* Monday - Workshops
* Tuesday through Thursday - Demonstration Theatre
== Sooke ==
* Speaker's Ready Room
* BOFs
== Victoria ==
* Conference Committee's lounge
== View Royal ==
* Monday - Workshops
* Tuesday through Thursday - Presentations, or not used if Salon C is used for Presentations
* BOFs
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FOSS4G2007 Video and Photos

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Information about Video and Photos from the FOSS4G 2007 conference that was held in Victoria, BC, Canada, September 24 to 27, 2007.
= Video =
The only videos that were made are from the Opening Plenary session and the Closing Plenary session.
They are pretty good quality, though there is some sound clipping and you can't see the actual slides, only the speaker.
The Opening Plenary video does not include Damien Conway's talk. 
Opening Plenary session video
Closing Plenary session video
== Video notes ==
Information, hints and tips about the videos.
If you use the "Open in popup window" option, make sure to stop the player in the browser window, otherwise you may get the sound track from both the in-browser video and the popup window video.
=== Opening Plenary session video ===
Despite the length claimed, there is no content after 1:36:22.
=== Closing Plenary session video ===
You may find that after you "wait a while", you get to see a freeze-frame of Paul Ramsey walking across the stage. The video starts at 0:00, and after a few seconds, jumps to "4:11", and that's where it freezes. If you drag the slider to a later time, you can get the video to start playing. If you start at about 4:30, you won't miss anything. The total time for the video is shown as 143:20(2 hours 23 minutes 20 seconds), but it actually ends at 1:53:44.
= Photos =
The FOSS4G 2007 website has a Picture Gallery that covers the conference days as well as pre and post conference information and activities.
The FOSS4G 2007 attenders who use Flickr were asked to tag their photos with foss4g2007, so all pictures can be easily found. There is also OSGeo group on Flickr dedicated to build photos pool from FOSS4G and OSGeo events. 
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FOSS4G2007 eduCom meeting

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The following eduCom members are planning to be at the FOSS4G2007 meeting in Victoria, BC. If you are planning to be there, and are not listed below, please add yourself. The plan is for eduCom members to meet in person, get to know each other, and hold a BOF/SIG type meeting somewhere/sometime in conjunction with the conference. Please use this page to plan out a location/time. Maybe one of the locals can help choose a conducive place.
* Venkatesh Raghavan
* Arnulf Christl
* Scott Emmons
* Ari Jolma
* Aaron Racicot
* Daniel Ames and friends
* Helena Mitasova
* Charlie Schweik - I will try to be the organizer for this
* Scott Mitchell
* Tyler Mitchell
* Ian Turton
Meeting time(s):
Tuesday Sept 25 17:00-18:30, Bird's of a Feather Meeting, followed up with a "Wiki Sprint" on Sept. 26. 
Meeting agenda: Initial meeting agenda was created on the FOSS4G 2007 BOF page. 
BOF minutes: Scott Mitchell attempted to take notes - feel free to correct your names, affiliations etc, on the FOSS4G2007 Education BOF minutes page.
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FOSS4G2008 Comments

= Things That Rocked =
* The food rocked (+3)
* The Lightning Talks rocked
* Having a primary hotel (Fountains)
* Lots of interested people attending (+1)
* LiveDVD was grabbed a lot
* good support for academic track
* main conference venue CTICC rocked!
* significant regional representation rocked!
= Things That Sucked =
* Network bandwidth (sometimes) sucked (+2)
* Missing presenters (+2)
* The full conference timetable should be hosted (in navigable form) in the OSGeo conf system, not in systems like GoogleDocs where it will likely not preserved for the next years (+2)
* please add the presenter names to the conference planner (+2)
* the code sprint ending at 5pm sucked
* buses to workshops sucked
* too little info for exhibitors, or a bit too late to be useful
= Other Things =
* 2009: provide copy station for DVD and USB sticks at OSGeo booth so that folks can carry software/data/docs home
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FOSS4G2008 DIY

For those who want to organise their own accommodation, transport, etc. Assemble your knowledge and tips here. 
=Budget accommodation=
There are a number of backpackers in and around town (CBD).
The suburbs closest to the conference centre are Cape Town (CBD, downtown), Green Point, Three Anchor Bay, Foreshore, Schotse Kloof, Zonnebloem, Tamboerskloof, anything in the 'City Bowl', Sea Point, Woodstock.
Orient yourself at the conference map site.
http://www.alternativeroute.net/hostels.htm
http://www.funaku.co.za/companies.asp?cat=2351
http://www.capetown-direct.com/cbd-city-bowl/accommodation/1
http://www.sa-venues.com www.sa-venues.com
www.wheretostay.co.za
*e.g. http://www.wheretostay.co.za/fairview-citybowl
www.capestay.co.za
www.backpackers.co.za
http://www.safarinow.com
http://www.sleeping-out.co.za
http://www.bigblue.za.net
=Room sharing=
See FOSS4G2008 Roomshare 
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FOSS4G2008 Exhibiting

=Free and Open Source for Geospatial 2008=
See the conference website for more information and to see current sponsors.
=If you would like to sponsor or exhibit...=
...please download the Prospectus or contact Magda (mroos at geoscience dot org.za)
=FOSS4G Exhibiton Floorplan showing Exhibitors as of 31 August 2008=
 
Unassigned and pending: ESRI+52North, GISSA, OsGeo
Note that we can add more stands as necessary along the wall at the top of the diagram, so if you would still like to exhibit, we can accommodate you.
Note also that the Opening Icebreaker cocktail evening on 29 September for all delegates will be held in the exhibition hall immediately after the opening plenary.
=Details from the Prospectus=
HOW TO EXHIBIT
Two-and-a-half days of face-to-face floor time during the conference, with lunches served in the exhibit hall and frequent breaks for exclusive exhibition time provide lots of opportunities to connect with attendees. The International FOSS4G events attract participants from around the world, and exhibiting is an excellent chance to connect directly with local, regional and international clients.
==Allocation==
Exhibition stands are part of the benefit package for Premier and Platinum sponsors. 
Priority will be given to other Sponsors to purchase exhibition stands at full cost. 
Thereafter stands will be sold on a first come-first served basis. 
To achieve a larger stand size, adjacent stands can be purchased.
==Exhibitor Space Rates==
*Commercial 3m x 3m booth R20 000 (~USD2667)
*Government / Nonprofit / Universities 3m x 3m booth R15 000 (~USD2000)
==Included==
* Shell structure booth with 1 X 15A power point (South African 3-point, please bring your own adapters)
* Fascia board with company name
* 1 table, 2 chairs 
* 2 x 150W spot lights
* 1 x full conference registration (excludes workshops)
* 1 x exhibitor registration (access to exhibit, refreshments and lunches only)
* Invitation to cocktail party
* Listing in conference program
* Listing on the conference web site
* 24 hours site security
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FOSS4G2008 LiveDVD

Welcome to the FOSS4G 2008 Live DVD
If you've gotten this far, you already know the concept of a Live DVD. This disk provides the opportunity to try a variety of open source geospatial applications without the need to install anything new on your system. This Live DVD is based on the XUbuntu operating system to ensure it can be freely distributed. Including such supporting applications as Apache Web Server, Apache Tomcat Application Server, Sun Java, PostgreSQL and PGAdmin, we are able to provide you with the variety of server and client applications, described below.
This Live DVD has been produced for the FOSS4G 2008 conference in Capetown, South Africa through the tireless effort of LISAsoft and Ominiverdi. For a description of this Live DVD, very similar to the one you're reading now, look to the wiki page on the OSGeo website.
Included Applications
Application 	Homepage 	Notes
GeoServer 1.6.3	http://geoserver.org/ 	The GeoServer administration page is loaded by clicking on the Geoserver desktop icon. Under the Demo option on the admin page there are two options of interest. Sample Requests provides a form with XML sample responses that can be altered and sent to the server. The XML responses are displayed when returned. Map Preview provides an OpenLayers based map interface to allow exploration of the data served by GeoServer.
GRASS 6.3.0 	http://grass.osgeo.org/ 	The GRASS GUI is available by clicking the GRASS Gis desktop icon.
gvSIG 1.1.1 	http://www.gvsig.gva.es/ 	gvSIG is available by clicking the gvSIG desktop icon.
MapServer 5.0.0	http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/ 	The UMN MapServer CGI binary and binary utilities are installed. A sample CGI application can be loaded by clicking on the Mapserver desktop icon. Two sample mapfiles are provided in the /home/demo/mapserver/ directory.
PostGIS 1.3.1 	http://postgis.refractions.net/	PostGIS is installed in PostgreSQL 8.3, in the template_postgis, test and australia databases. These databases can be accessed directly using the psql command within a terminal window, or through PGAdmin by clicking on the pgadmin 3 desktop icon. They can also be accessed via the various desktop client applications, using the username/password combination of demo/demo.
QGIS 0.11.0 	http://www.qgis.org/ 	QGIS is available by clicking on the QGIS desktop icon.
uDig 1.1-SC1 	http://udig.refractions.net/ 	uDig is available by clicking on the uDig desktop icon.
Included Data
	
Data 	Location 	Notes
Alaska 	/home/demo/qgis_sample_data	The Alaska Dataset is a free dataset including raster and vector data for the state of Alaska, as well as boundary polygons for neighbouring countries. The Alaskan state boundary is also available in the PostGIS database test.
Spearfish 	/home/demo/spearfish60 	The spearfish demo is provided in GRASS compatible formats.
Australian 	australia database 	The Australian Dataset consists of low-scale vector data for australian roads, rails and rivers, as well as political boundary shapes Australia and surrounding areas.
Blue Marble	/home/demo/bluemarble 	Blue Marble is the blue marble.
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