Schedule for the Geospatial devroom @FOSDEM 2016

I have the honour to present to present to you the schedule for the geospatial devroom at FOSDEM, which will happen on Sunday 31/01/2016.

We have a nice lineup with some well known GIS tools, moving over to new developments happening at OSGeo and Open Streetmap. 3D visualisation is the topic of different presentations around noon. And should you prefer backend work, the afternoon has a lineup of no less than 4 different geospatial databases (MySQL, Rasdaman, Mongodb and Pivotal).

Event		Speakers	Start	End
Sunday
	Automating your Analysis with SAGA GIS	Johan Van de Wauw	09:30	09:55
	Tempus - a framework for multimodal trip planning	Hugo Mercier	10:00	10:25
	Mapbender3 Create Your Own Geoportal Web Application And Service Repository	Astrid Emde	10:30	10:55
	Building a geo-aware OS	Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)	11:00	11:25
	Results of Google Summer of Code 2015 at OSGeo	Margherita Di leo, Anne Ghisla	11:30	11:55
	100% open journey planning Open source, open APIs, open data	Tuukka Hastrup	12:00	12:25
	Mapping with a phone Why is it so hard to edit OpenStreetMap on a phone, and how MAPS.ME solves this problem	Ilya Zverev	12:30	12:55
	OSM + SRTM + WebGL = Flight Simulator	Thomas Bremer	13:00	13:25
	OL3-Cesium, 3D for OpenLayers	Guillaume Beraudo	13:30	13:55
	iTowns, an opensource web framework for 3D visualization	Vincent Mora	14:00	14:25
	Introduction to MySQL GIS A crash course	Norvald H. Ryeng	14:30	14:55
	Managing Spatio-Temporal Big Data through Scalable OGC Web Services	Alex Dumitru	15:00	15:25
	Geospatial and Me How to fast exploit geospatial data on apps	Norberto Leite	15:30	15:55
	Trajectory: A novel geospatial data model of Pivotal GPDB	Kuien Liu	16:00	16:25
	Geocoding the World with openaddresses.io Geocoding on the cloud	Ervin Ruci	16:30	16:50

update
To close the day we can head of to the the Closing keynote of FOSDEM which will be given by Blake Girardot (HOT OSM)

Putting 8 Million People on the Map: Revolutionizing crisis response through open mapping tools

17:00 - 17:50

Janson

For all of you who don't know FOSDEM: FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event bringing together about 5000 developers in Brussels, Belgium. The goal is to provide open source software developers and communities a place to meet and share thoughts. The participation is free of charge, although donations are welcome. The next edition will take place the last weekend ofJanuary 30 - 31 2016. This year for the second time there will be a Geospatial devroom on Sunday 31/1/2016.

Hope to see all of you in Brussels!

Call For presentations Geospatial devroom @FOSDEM 2016

Please forward!

FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event bringing together about 5000 developers in Brussels, Belgium. The goal is to provide open source software developers and communities a place to meet and share thoughts. The participation is free of charge, although donations are welcome. The next edition will take place the last weekend of January 30 - 31 2016. This year for the second time there will be a Geospatial devroom on Sunday 31/1/2016,organised by members of the OSGeo, Locationtech and OpenStreetMap communities.

Geospatial technology is becoming rapidly mainstream. The idea underpinning the geospatial devroom is bringing together developers with different backgrounds to disclose the opportunities offered by cutting-edge open source geospatial technologies. Due to the success of last years devroom, a Belgium local chapter of OSGeo, OSGeo.be was founded, and is now taking part of the organisation of the devroom as driving community.

The Geospatial devroom is the place to talk about the state of the art of open, geo-related data, free and open source geospatial software and its ecosystem. This includes standards and tools, e.g. spatial databases, online mapping tools, geospatial services, used for collecting, storing, delivering, analysing, and visualizing geodata. We welcome submissions about: 

• Web and desktop GIS applications

• Interoperable geospatial web services and specifications

• Collection of data using sensors/drones/satellites

• Open hardware for geospatial applications

• Geo-analytic algorithms/libraries

• Geospatial extensions for classical databases (indexes, operations) and dedicated databases

• Collaborative editing/versioning of geodata

• Big geodata, scalable GIS applications

• Volunteered Geograpic information - Crowdsourced data

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL FOR A TALK

Are you thrilled to present your work to other open source developers? Would you like to run a discussion? Any other ideas? Please submit your proposal using the Pentabarf event planning tool at:

https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM16

Make sure to select the 'Geospatial devroom' as  'Track'. Please, specify in the notes if you prefer for your presentation either a short timeslot (lightning talks ~10 minutes) or a long timeslot (20 minutes presentation + discussion). However, note that time slots are indicative and will be assigned according to the needs of the session.

The DEADLINE for submissions is Tuesday **1st December 2015**. Notification of acceptance will be sent to the Authors by Friday 11/12/2015 at the latest.

Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch with the organisers of the devroom at fosdem-geospatial@gisky.be!

Johan Van de Wauw

Margherita Di Leo

Astrid Emde

Anne Ghisla

Martin Hammitzsch

Andy Petrella 

Dirk Frigne

Olivier Courtin

Thomas Gratier

An update on Debian and Ubuntu GIS

Last week was an important week for Debian and Ubuntu: both distributions had a release. Debian released its new stable release "8.0" nicknamed "jessie".

Deep down the release notes you will find a sentence which may be interesting for anyone interested in GIS on this platform:

During the jessie development cycle many changes from UbuntuGIS were merged back into Debian GIS. The collaboration with UbuntuGIS and OSGeo-Live projects was improved, resulting in new packages and contributors. Visit Debian GIS tasks pages to see the full range of GIS software inside Debian and the Debian GIS homepage for more information.

This means that in jessie you will find a number of new packages (owslib, pgrouting,spatialite-gui,tinyows) and updates to many of the large well known packages: gdal, mapserver, postgis, qgis, saga and grass, but also to openstreetmap related packages such as josm.

If you are looking for a stable distribution which offers many gis packages out of the box, debian jessie is definitely the way to go, as it will be supported for five years.

Just a few days before the release of jessie also ubuntu had a new release: 15.04 nicknamed "vivid". Much of the work that was done in Debian for jessie is included in this release (since ubuntu is based on debian), and some packages even got synced from the development versions of Debian: you will find that vivid contains the current release for eg gdal, postgis and saga, without having to rely on a third party archive!

All of this was possible because DebianGIS, and Sebastic in particular have been very active. Now that jessie is released, more energy will go into packaging new packages and versions, so if your pet GIS project is not in Debian/Ubuntu yet (or not up-to-date as you would like), it is the ideal moment to join!

Two days of geo-goodness at FOSDEM 31/1 - 1/2

You may already know that there is a great lineup for the geospatial devroom at FOSDEM on synday: yes, we actually have 22 presenters from a large number of different countries (even outside Europe!).

	Intro geospatial devroom	Johan Van de Wauw	09:00	09:05
	Use of OSS in the Lifewatch biodiversity research project	Julien Radoux	09:05	09:15
	QGIS Tool for Landslide Hazard Assessment	Darya Golovko	09:15	09:25
	Opensource Desktop GIS at Regional and Local goverments in Flanders Integrating Govermental webservices into QGIS	Kay Warrie	09:25	09:35
	Bridging the gap between simulation and GIS	Vincent Mora	09:40	10:05
	GRASS GIS 7: Efficiently processing big geospatial data	Markus Neteler	10:10	10:30
	GRASS Development APIs Lifting the fog on the different ways to develop for GRASS	Moritz Lennert	10:30	10:45
	Open Standards for Big Geo Data	Peter Baumann	10:50	11:15
	Scotty, I need a data in three minutes! (Or we're all dead!!) Just the right data at just the right time	Andrew Ross	11:20	11:45
	Distributed tile processing with GeoTrellis and Spark	Rob Emanuele	11:50	12:15
	GeoTrellis and the GeoTiff File Format	Johan Stenberg	12:15	12:25
	Habitat - a programmable personal geospatial datatore	Richard Pope	12:30	12:40
	Daybed spatial backend as a service !	Mathieu Leplatre	12:45	13:10
	Taking Web GIS beyond Google Maps with the Geomajas Client and Spatial Application Server Mapping stuff with Java, GWT and Javascript	Frank Maes	13:15	13:40
	Mobile Map Technology Developing Mobile Multiplatform 3d maps	Manuel de la Calle Alonso	13:45	14:10
	Potree - Rendering Large Point Clouds in Web Browsers	Markus Schütz	14:15	14:25
	OpenLayers 3: A unique web-mapping library	Éric Lemoine	14:30	14:55
	Ol3-Cesium : 3D for OpenLayers map An exciting library for automatically bringing 3D to your map	Guillaume Beraudo	14:55	15:10
	Overpass API A service to query OpenStreetMap data	Roland Olbricht	15:15	15:40
	Tempus: a framework for multimodal trip planning	Hugo Mercier	15:45	16:10
	Douglas-Peucker updated or do you want to reduce your data	Stephane Winnepenninckx	16:15	16:40
	PicoTCP on Mobile Ad Hoc networks	Brecht Van Cauwenberghe	16:45	16:55

Full schedule here.
But apart from the lineup on Sunday, also Saterday actually has a number of interesting geo-related talks as well:

10:35 - 10:55 (distributions devroom)

• From Debian-GIS to OSGeo live and back (yep shameless self-promotion)

 12:00 - 12:50 (hardware track)

• A GPS watch made of free software and hardware

14:00 - 14:25 (graph devroom)

• From Open Street Map to your preferred graph database...

15:00 - 15:50 (hardware track)

• FreeCAD
  a hackable design platform 

And I'm sure you will probably find many other interesting presentations in one of the other 550 lectures. So hope to see many of you at FOSDEM!

Update
I noted there is another geo-related talk on Sunday, unfortunately in parallel with the program for the geospatial devroom:

• Web mapping with MySQL
   An introduction to MySQL GIS