shrug-l: Call for Workshops - FOSS4G 2017 in Boston

[Randal Hale]

For those of you who don’t yet know, FOSS4G 2017 will be held in Boston, 
MA on August 14-19. Please visit the website for conference details : 
http://2017.foss4g.org/ . As a member of the workshop committee - I 
encourage you to submit a workshop.

Workshop info:

     Workshops will be held on August 14th and 15th at the Harvard 
Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA) in Cambridge, MA
     Workshops are scheduled in 4 hour blocks, but a limited number of 
full-day (8 hr.) workshops will be considered
     Compensation for a 4 hour workshop is $650, which is the cost of an 
Early-Bird registration for FOSS4G
     Workshops will be BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) for attendees. 
FOSS4G will provide bootable OSGeo Live USB sticks and remote desktop 
access to cloud-hosted machines.
     In the past, workshops have included topics related to the 
following, but the committee is open to other topics that are relevant 
to the FOSS4G community and will generate interest :
         QGIS/PyQGIS
         PostGIS
         GeoServer
         MapServer
         Web Mapping
         GRASS GIS
         GDAL/OGR CLI Tools
         pgRouting
         Using OSGeoLive
         GeoPython
         GvSig
         Aerial Mapping and Point Clouds/LIDAR/Photogrammetry
         Using open source GIS in a cloud environment


Important Dates:
Call for Workshops Closed: March 13, 2017
Workshop Selections Announced: March 20, 2017
Detailed Workshop Program: April 3, 2017
Workshops Take Place at Harvard: August 14/15, 2017

Here is a link to the workshop page for the submission form and further 
details: http://2017.foss4g.org/workshops/


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Randal Hale
North River Geographic Systems, Inc
http://www.northrivergeographic.com
423.653.3611 rjhale at northrivergeographic.com
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