FOSS4G 2017 BirdsOfAFeather

= Introduction =
Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions are unstructured timeslots where people can self-organise themselves to discuss topics of interest.
== General Information ==
During the FOSS4G 2017 conference in Boston, there will be a number of spaces for people to hold Birds of a Feather sessions.
For reference, an overview of the FOSS4G schedule is available at [2017.foss4g.org/program/ http://2017.foss4g.org/program/].
=== How to organize a BOF ===
BoF sessions are informal gatherings of people around a specific topic. BoF's can be held in: BoF rooms, BoF lounge or taken off-site for breakfast, lunch or dinner!
While FOSS4G is provide space, but the setting up a bird-of-feather meetup is done informally using this wiki, twitter, or on site BoF board.
=== Capacities ===
The BoF sessions rooms are available through regular session times.
* Theater Room 1 - setup theater style (without AV)
* Theater Room 2 - setup theater style (without AV)
* Lounge - there is a lounge available on the trade floor to gather small groups.
We will put a BoF organizing board next to the lounge for on site organization.
== FOSS4G Contact ==
Reach out to @foss4g https://twitter.com/foss4g on twitter, or foss4g2017@lists.osgeo.org mailto:foss4g2017@lists.osgeo.org via email.
= Wednesday 16 August = 
PostGIS Day with a range of FOSS4G, Alternative Mapping, PostGIS, Government, Adoption, Image Processing, Javascript, Business, Cartography, SDI/Portals, Community, Utilitieis, OpenData, science, project status, Containers, Rasberry Pi, AI/Machine Learning, Python, Serverless, GeoNode and Node.js talks.
BOF rooms are available throughout the conference, consider the [program when scheduling your activity.
== Theater Room 1 ==
Timeslot 	Topic/Group 	Description 	Contact
4:00-5:00	3D and WebGL	Talks about the use of 3D in Geospatial.	Tom Fili (tfili@agi.com)
== Theater Room 2 ==
Timeslot 	Topic/Group 	Description 	Contact
07:30pm-8:30pm	MapServer BoF	Chat with MapServer devs & Power Users	Jeff McKenna
== Lounge ==
Timeslot 	Topic/Group 	Description 	Contact
07:45-8:15	FOSS4G 	Meet, greet and sticker swap 	Jody Garnett
03:30-3:50	#maptime BoF	Stickers. Meet. Greet. Maps. Community.	Emily Ashley (@maptimeHQ)
= Thursday 17 August = 
R Day with a mix of Google Earth, Drone/Satelite, Visualization, R, Big Data, QGIS ,3D ,Serverless, Data Serving, Cartography, Education, Government, Water Management, Standards, Projections and Education presentations.
BOF rooms are available throughout the conference, consider the [program when scheduling your activity.
== Theater Room 1 ==
Timeslot 	Topic/Group	Description 	Contact
13:00-13:30	GeoTIFF.io 	In-Browser (Client-Side) Raster Processing	Daniel J. Dufour (daniel.j.dufour@gmail.com) & Stephen Peyton (stephendpeyton@gmail.com)
== Theater Room 2 ==
Timeslot 	Topic/Group 	Description 	Contact
13:00-13:30	GeoServer Team	GeoServer Q&A with developers and power users, everyone welcome	Jody, Andrea, Kevin, Torben, David
== Lounge ==
Timeslot 	Topic/Group 	Description 	Contact
12:00-13:30	OGP, GeoBlacklight, GeoNetwork	Meetup to discuss Open Geoportal, GeoBlacklight, & GeoNetwork	Patrick Florance, Chris Barnett (Christopher.Barnett@tufts.edu)
13:00-13:30	Rust 	Meet other Rusteans doing geospatial things 	Volker Mische (@vmx), @PirminKalberer
= Friday 17 August = 
QGIS Day with Project Status updates, Space, Big Data, GeoServer, Transportation/Routing, QGIS, Stories/Time, Health, 3D, Humanitarian, Analytics, Environment, Health, Agriculture, Vector Tiles and LiDAR talks.
BOF rooms are available throughout the conference, consider the [program when scheduling your activity.
== Theater Room 1 ==
Timeslot 	Topic/Group 	Description 	Contact
11:00-12:00	Golang for Geospatial 	discussions about geospatial libraries using Golang - open to all! 	Michael P. Gerlek (mpg@flaxen.com)
12:00-13:00	Maps for HTML community group / Map Markup Language	discussions about extending HTML to include maps and what MapML aka map semantics is / are - open to all!	Peter Rushforth (peter.rushforth@gmail.com / peter.rushforth@canada.ca)
== Theater Room 2 ==
Timeslot	Topic/Group 	Description 	Contact
10-10:45	Spark and Geo 	Bring together all the ways we are doing Spark for Geo - would love to see SparkSQL for PostGIS 	Steve Pousty (@TheSteve0)
12:15-1 	Containers and Geo	Get together and look at all the work people are doing with Containers (Docker, RKT, CRI-O), Container Orchestration, and Geo	Steve Pousty (@TheSteve0)
== Lounge ==
Timeslot	Topic/Group	Description	Contact