Call for WAURISA Workshop Presenters

[karsten vennemann]

Hi CUGOSians,

 

the call for workshops below was sent by Greg to the cps-gis-user email list some weeks ago, so I wanted to pick up the subject and see who would be interested to do another workshop on FOSS geospatial next year ? I guess this time we can go head and introduce some more specific workshop subjects compared to this 2009 ...

 

I myself am thinking about presenting something like "Using FOSS GIS tools on the desktop for analysis and cartography" (and focus on FWtools, PostGIS and gvSIG)

Who is interested and what are your thoughts?

 

In general I think we most likely can grow OS participation/presentations for WAURISA 2010 because FOSS4G 2010 is far away (Barcelona) and "we made it" onto the OS conference location map last year with our efforts so even more people will show up from further away...

 

Cheers

Karsten

 

Karsten Vennemann
Terra GIS LTD, Seattle, USA 
www.terragis.net

 

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From: cps-gis...@mailman2.u.washington.edu [mailto:cps-gis...@mailman2.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Babinski, Greg
Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 13:51
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Subject: [Cps-gis] Call for WAURISA Workshop Presenters

Call for Workshop Presenters

WAURISA invites you to participate as a presenter in upcoming workshops through 2010.   We are in need of volunteers willing to give educational presentations on a wide range of GIS topics.  Presentations can range in duration from at least 90 minutes to 7 hours.  All submissions are welcome and will be evaluated as a potential workshop focus.  Our goal is to present workshops in both the eastern and western portions of Washington State.

Specifically, presentations are being sought to fill:

Half-day workshops for a pre-conference workshop series to be held on April 19th, 2010 in Tacoma, WA. Visit the WAURISA page (www.waurisa.org) to view 2010 conference details and previous workshop topics for examples.  Pre-conference workshops can have 75 – 100 attendees.

Content for GIS developer workshops to be held throughout  2010.

Any other 90-minute to full day length content relevant to URISA members.  If similar topic proposals are received, workshops focused on that subject will be considered.  Visit the WAURISA education page (http://www.waurisa.org/education.html) for previous examples of workshops.  Workshop attendance can be 30 – 75 people.

 

Please submit an abstract for the education sessions. 

Submissions will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

Subject matter is relevant to the WAURISA membership.

Learning objectives are clearly outlined.

Presentation materials will be provided at no or low cost (WAURISA will pay for black and white reproduction of instructional booklets.)

Workshop will be presented in a way that it is educational in nature, and will not promote your company or services.

Instructor has prior teaching/speaking experience.

 

Please submit an abstract of the presentation, presenter name(s), anticipated presentation duration, intended audience and any other supplemental documentation to illustrate how your presentation meets the criteria listed above to pres...@waurisa.org by December 30^th, 2009 for consideration in the 2010 spring conference.  Submissions will be evaluated continuously but presenters are encouraged to submit early.  Please address questions to pres...@waurisa.org

 

Presenters will benefit by receiving discounted learning opportunities! 

Conference workshop presenters will receive a complimentary registration to attend the full conference.

Honorariums are available to non-conference presenters whose content is 3 hours or more.  

 

 

 

-greg babinski

 

[Michael P. Gerlek]

I’m in, if you need a moderator / overview type person (esp since I lost my chance last year due to the flu).

 

-mpg

[Dane Springmeyer]

This is great Chris, thanks for the heads up!

I'd be interested in giving a talk on either Mapnik or GeoDjango, so
I'll do some brainstorming over the holiday.

Cheers,

Dane


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[Matt Kenny]

Hey All,

I was giving a presentation today at the NWWaGIS User Group, and happened to meet Don Burdick (City of Bellingham GIS), who is serving as the WAURISA president.

He actually said that he was pretty interested in getting an open source presence at the WAURISA conference, and encouraged me to pass along the word to you guys. Specifically, he was interested in both presentations at the WAURISA conference and whole-day(multi-day?) workshops.

The deadline for abstracts is at the end of the month, and need to only be a few paragraphs in length.

Just passing the word along. Oh, and NWWaGIS is looking for presenters for their next round in march. They'd be very interested in Open Source GIS stuff.

-Matt

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[karsten]

Good news - two open source workshops have been approved for WAURISA
2010:
"Open Source Tools for Spatial Analysis and Geoprocessing on the
Desktop (that's the one I submitted as a member of CUGOS)
and
"Using A Free and Open Source Geospatial Stack" presented by Mike
Pumphrey - Outreach Engineer, OpenGeo !!
Listing is here http://www.waurisa.org/conferences/2010/Workshops.html

[Tyler Mitchell]

Thanks for posting this on the OSGeo discuss list, Karsten, it helped
put it on my radar.

This is one of the closest events to me up in here in B.C. :)

I'm interested in coming and giving a talk, but thought I'd touch base
with this list first to gauge how I might best use the time before
submitting my abstract. What key audiences do you see at this event?

I'd also be interested in meeting up with other open source folks
outside of the conference timing/events. e.g. in case we wanted to
set up a meeting/workshop for high level decision makers or business
folks looking for an inside scoop on moving to open source. Probably
a good topic for a presentation, but a few hours face-to-face with
people on the topic can also go a long way (and maybe raise funds for
the chapter/OSGeo too??).

Anything else come to mind?
Best wishes,
Tyler

[karsten]

We are moving ahead with this. I just had a great conversation with
Tyler on the phone this morning.
We will talk more at next weeks CUGOS meeting who is up to supporting
any of the ideas below ...

Here is what was discussed so far:
Tyler is ready to come to the WAURISA conference and give at least one
talk about OSGEO and FOSS4G (and why to move to/ use OS GIS software)
to address decision makers. We can also file with WAURISA to get a
longer discussion panel/workgroup meeting into the conference schedule
(like the Lone GIS Professional group had the last two years). Those
sessions that will be at least 90 minutes long and Tyler and others
can give talks alternating with (hopefully) lively discussions with
participants. That would be during the conference if we want to move
ahead with it, but (in addition) we could also have a separate event
set-up and invite GIS "movers and shakers" (for example on the
Thursday after WAURISA). I was thinking we could ask our friends at UW
if we could have them provide a room for this free event.
Peter will go ahead and contact some of the county folks and find out
what the interest in this is. I'm pretty sure Pierce County will be
interested too...
Anybody who has ideas on how to get other (industry) "decision maker
folks" to such an event (other than just announcing/inviting folks via
the usual email lists like cps-user group e.g. ) please let us know
your ideas.
Any comments and ideas welcome - fire away.
Karsten

[Tyler Mitchell]

FYI - I also just realised that I had been chatting with David Percy from Portland State and we had talk about coordinating an OSGeo event around the "GIS in Action" event that month.  Just mentioning it in case that is of more interest to folks here as well.  I doubt I'll make it to both, but I know you guys are probably more flexible than me.

Either way,
Tyler

[percy]

Hi, I'm a member of CUGOS, too!

It sounds like maybe you could end up having a nice tour of Oregon/
Washington if you do both!
:-)

I'm still pulling the details together on the Friday/Saturday open
source event here in Portland that will piggy-back on the Wednesday/
Thursday GIS in Action (GIA). We have several open-source and neo-
geography sessions in the GIA program, including the "Open Source GIS
Desktop Smackdown", which is probably going to be similar to what is
being discussed for FOSS4G-NA in Canada next year.

Cheers,
Percy