FOSS4G 2017

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== 2017 Presentation Slides and Information ==
FOSS4G 2017 Presentations
== Birds Of A Feather (BoF) ==
BoF sessions are informal gatherings of people around a specific topic. BoF's can be held in BoF rooms, the BoF lounge, or can be taken off site for lunch or dinner. FOSS4G will provide space, but the programming of events should be done informally through the community using the wiki and the on site BoF board.
BoF sessions rooms will be available through regular session times. There Are two rooms setup theater style without AV that are available. There will also be 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.
The community wiki page is: FOSS4G 2017 BirdsOfAFeather
== Languages Spoken ==
Please help us list what languages will be spoken at the conference. Add to the following list:
Language Abbreviation (3 letter)	Language Name
ENG 	English
SPA 	Spanish
KOR 	Korean
GER 	German
CAT 	Catalan
== Initial Proposal ==
Download the proposal PDF: https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/proposals/2017/FOSS4G2017_proposal_Boston.pdf
== Local Organizing Committee ==
LOC_Members
Name 	Organization 	Sector 	Title 	Location 	Role
Andy Anderson 	Amherst College;University of Massachusetts Amherst	Academic 	Academic Technology Specialist;Adjunct Assistant Professor in Environmental Conservation	Amherst, Massachusetts	Chair of Program Subcommittee
Giovanni Zambotti	Harvard University 	Academic 	GIS Specialist 	Greater Boston 	
Patrick Florance 	Tufts University 	Academic 	Associate Director of Geospatial Technology 	Greater Boston 	
Chris Barnett 	Tufts University 	Academic 	Geospatial Developer 	Greater Boston 	
Guido Stein 	AvidGeo & Applied Geographics, Inc. 	Community 	Founder & GIS Analyst 	Greater Boston 	Co-Chair of FOSS4G Boston 2017
Mike Foster 	Maptime Boston & MIT 	Community 	Community Organizer & GIS Specialist 	Greater Boston 	Chair of Workshop Subcommittee
Aleda Freeman 	MassGIS/EOTSS/Commonwealth of Massachusetts 	Government	Web Mapping Services Manager 	Greater Boston 	Chair of Extracurricular Subcommittee; Member Outreach Committee, Member Program Subcommittee
Christian Jacqz 	MassGIS/MassIT/Commonwealth of Massachusetts 	Government	Former Director of MassGIS 	Greater Boston 	Member Program Subcommittee
Carolyn Bennett 	Boston Redevelopment Authority 	Government	GIS Manager 	Greater Boston 	
Michael Terner 	Applied Geographics, Inc. 	Private 	Executive Vice President 	Greater Boston 	Chair of FOSS4G Boston 2017
Will Mitchell 	NBT Solutions, LLC 	Private 	Principal 	Portland, Maine 	On Sponsor Committee
== Community Committee ==
=== Past Activities ===
Logo Contest
== Program Related ==
==Academic Committee==
FOSS4G Notes on Academic Track 
===Co-Chairs===
; Charlie Schweik, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA : Volunteered Geographic Information, Land Use/Cover, Commons-Based Peer Production in Open Geospatial, Education
; Mohammed Zia, National Innovation & Research Center for Geographical Information Technologies, Turkey : GIS, Web GIS, Vehicle Routing, Programming, Remote Sensing, Geology
===Reviewers===
; Andy Anderson, Amherst College & University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA : Demographics, Environmental Systems, Geostatistics, Programming, Web GIS, CyberGIS, Education
; Maria Brovelli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy: GIS, Web Mapping, Collaborative Mapping, Geo-crowdsourcing
; Serena Coetzee, Centre for Geoinformation Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa : Spatial Data Infrastructure, Address Data, Standardization, Open Principles, GISc Education, Geovisualization
; Kim Durante, Stanford University, USA : Spatial Data Infrastructure, Metadata, Standardization, Preservation
; Nimalika Fernando, Sri Lanka: Location-Based Services, Mobile GIS, Route Planning, Indoor Spatial Data Modelling, Indoor Navigation, Web GIS 
; Simone Lanucara, Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment, National Research Council of Italy : Spatial Data Infrastructures, Open Geospatial Consortium interfaces, Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial, Sensor Web Enablement, Semantic Harmonization, Data Harmonization, Big Data
; Steven Lehr, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA : Machine Learning, Data Mining, Mapserver, PHP
; Peter Löwe, Germany: Open Science, Data Science, GRASS GIS
; Jeff McKenna, OSGeo, Canada : Web Mapping, Databases, Standards
; Marco Minghini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy : Volunteered Geographic Information, OpenStreetMap, Land Use/Cover, Education
; Helena Mitasova, North Carolina State University, USA : Terrain Modeling, Visualization, GRASS GIS
; Rafael Moreno, University of Colorado Denver, USA : Natural Resources Management, Sustainable Development, Environmental Modeling with GIS, FOSS4G
; Venkatesh Raghavan, Osaka City University, Japan : Remote Sensing, Geoinformatics, Geospatial Web Services
; Darshana Rawal, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India: Web GIS, GIS, Programming, Geomarketing, Disaster Management, Location-Based Services
; Jorge Gustavo Rocha, University of Minho, Portugal : Volunteered Geographic Information, OpenStreetMap, Software development
; Sven Schade, European Commission - Joint Research Centre, EU : Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), Semantic Web, Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), Citizen Science, Crowdsourcing
; Kalum Priyanath Udagepola, Scientific Research Development Institute of Technology Australia, Australia : Digital Globe, GIS Education, Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), Geospatial Business Intelligence, Decision Support Systems, Spatial Data Visualization, Remote Sensing, Land Surveying
; Tuong-Thuy Vu, Malaysia: Remote Sensing, Data Fusion, GIS Education, Big Data
== Processes ==
*2017 Committee Member Selection
*2017 Session Selection
*2017 Keynote Selection
*2017 Website Updates
== Lessons Learned ==
*FOSS4G 2017 Lessons Learned
== FOSS4GHappyHour ==
With 68 days left until the conference we, the LOC, are going to start trying to connect more directly with those attending and thinking about attending. We are going to have happy hours with members of the committee and sub-committees. These sessions will be run in the form of an AMA (Ask Me Anything).
Live Video Stream:
* youtube live channel 
Live Chat:
* #FOSS4G IRC Channel
For each happy hour we will list who is going to be in the hot seat, but feel free to list yourself as participating if you are planning on attending (Hot Seat = NO):
 6/13 17:00 EDT- Volunteer Committee now accepting applications
No	Name 	Organization 	Twitter Handle	Role 	Location 	Hot Seat
1 	Guido Stein 	Applied Geographics, Inc.	@guidos 	FOSS4G Boston 2017 Co-Chair 	Boston, MA	IN
2 	Ashley Tardif	FOSS4G Boston 2017 	@aerthrae 	FOSS4G Boston 2017 Operations Coordinator 	Boston, MA	IN
3 	Kayla Patel 	City of Boston 	@paylakatel 	FOSS4G Boston 2017 Volunteer Sub-Committee Chair	Boston, MA	IN
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