Overview

Conference Week - August 2016

Sunday 21.	Monday 22.	Tuesday 23.	Wednesday 24.	Thursday 25.	Friday 26.	Saturday 27.	Sunday 28.
Code Sprint I			Conference (including Talks, Keynote Speeches, Topic Talks, Scientific Track, Poster Session and Map Gallery)			Code Sprint II
	Workshops
		B2B Meeting	Icebreaker	Gala Event
Pub Race

Overview

Conference Week - August 2016

Sun 21.	Code Sprint I			Pub Race
Mon 22.		Work- shops
Tue 23.			B2B Meeting
Wed 24.	Conference		Ice- breaker
Thu 25.			Gala Event
Fri 26.
Sat 27.	Code Sprint II
Sun 28.

Conference Programme

24th - 26th August

CRTL-F Version here (last updated 20th)

Wednesday, 24th
Thursday, 25th
Friday, 26th

Wednesday 24.8.
Time	Plenary Chamber	Room Bonn	Room Berlin	Fireplace Room	Rhinelobby	Tunnel	Plenary Office	Lab1
08:45	Beginn, Welcome from Conference Chair								Opening Session
09:00	Welcome by Mayor of Bonn
09:10	Introduction by Conference Chair
09:30	Lightning Talks
10:00	Keynote I Andreas Veispak (European Commission)
Coffee Break (10:30 - 11:00)
	Session Chair: Marc Vloemans	Session Chair: Anthonia Ijeoma Onyeahialam	Session Chair: Alexander Salveson Nossum	Session Chair: NA	Session Chair: NA	Session Chair: Marc Jansen	Session Chair: Manuel Grizonnet	Topic Talk How Open Source and Open Standards development profit from each other Athina Trakas, Ingo Simonis	Morning Session 1
11:00	Welcome to the FOSS4G Community Jody Garnett	Shortest Path search in your Database and more with pgRouting Daniel Kastl et al.	Coordinate systems and map projections with EPSG.io Petr Pridal	QGIS and database based system for managing urban drainage system data Dr. Jörg Höttges	Evolving JSTS to a modern port of JTS using AST transformation Björn Harrtell	MapStore 2, modern mashups with OL3, Leaflet and React Mauro Bartolomeoli	Building an open source imagery browser: UX and technical decisions to develop OpenAerialMap Daniel da Silva
11:30	There is no such thing as a free lunch Steven Feldman	The secret story of real time routing told by OpenStreetMap, pgRouting and OpenLayers Daniel Urda et al.	Nobody cares about your datum: or the Kleinstaaterei of spatial reference systems Calvin Metcalf	An environmental modelling and information service for health analytics Oliver Schmitz et al.	Academic Track Leaflet.annotate - Semantic markup for geographic web maps in HTML Malte Reißig	MapMint 2.0: a new version of the 100% service-oriented GIS platform Gérald Fenoy et al.	From outer space to your browser Carmen Tawalika
12:00	Open Collaboration and the Price of Butter Andrea Ross	Dealing with change - OSRM Version 5 Johan Uhle	---	Urban SDG Measuring System using the Open Geospatial Data of the International Organizations Dr. Junyoung Choi et al.	---	Provide applications with Geoportal Framework Mapbender3 Astrid Emde	PROBA-V mission exploitation platform Jeroen Dries
Break & Poster Session (12:30 - 13:30)
13:30	Keynote II Dirk Frigne (Geosparc)								Afternoon Session 1
	Session Chair: Joana Simoes	Session Chair: Eddie Pickle	Session Chair: Lene Fischer	Session Chair: Abigail Page	Session Chair: Robert Noldan	Session Chair: Stefan Keller	Session Chair: NA	Topic Talk An overview of the best Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Angelos Tzotsos
14:00	An R-tree index for RocksDB Volker Mische	Sat-utils: Landsat, Sentinel and the use of open raster data Matthew Hanson et al.	QField, a touch driven QGIS interface Matthias Kuhn et al.	Kickstart your web map app! Sami Mäkinen	Challenges of indoor mapping formats Iván Sánchez Ortega	Routing for Driving Pleasure Dan "Ducky" Little	Recording land tenure rights using GeoODK and Cadasta Platform Erick Omwandho Opiyo et al.
14:30	How GIS-friendly are Graph Databases today? Felix Kunde	Serving earth observation data with GeoServer: addressing real world requirements Simone Giannecchini et al.	QGis as a platform: transforming the desktop QGis for tablet use in Flanders fields Roel Huybrechts	GIS FOSS based products for renewable energy mapping and assessment in the Arabian Peninsula Luis Calisto	How to Visualize Indoor Data in 2D Map? Is This the Way to Go? Jiří Kozel	Academic Track Developing an Open Pedestrian Landmark Navigation Model Anita Graser	How the Land Administration community profits from Open Source Arnulf Christl
15:00	Spatial is not special: architecting for high performance geo Mark Varley	Standard-compliant geoprocessing services for Earth Observation time-series data access and analysis Jonas Eberle	QWCII: A new QGIS Web Client Andreas Neumann et al.	Academic Track Paleomaps: SDI for paleoenvironment GIS data Christian Willmes et al.	Trying to visualize GIS & BIM information on the web: a solution using Leaflet and Cesium Fabrizio Massara	---	OGC's Land Administration Working Group – Building Bridges between communities Athina Trakas
Coffee Break (15:30 - 16:00)
	Session Chair: Johan van de Wauw	Session Chair: Ari Jolma	Session Chair: Steven Feldman	Session Chair: Moritz Lennert	Session Chair: NA	Session Chair: NA	Session Chair: Gérald Fenoy	Topic Talk Become INSPIRE'd by OSGeo Dirk Frigne,Robin Smith	Afternoon Session 2
16:00	Using PostGIS in a real advanced way ! Olivier Courtin	How WebGL vector maps work Vladimir Agafonkin	Geomajas: Where did we go wrong? Oliver May	QGIS Lessons plugin. A new way of teaching QGIS Víctor Olaya	Open Source strategies in a federal office - migrating from closed software to OS development Dr Marco Lechner	Garbage Collection with FOSS4G Daniel Kastl	RESTful Geoprocessing API Benjamin Pross
16:30	Postgis Topology will replace simple feature. Lars Aksel Opsahl	Web maps & WebGL Iván Sánchez Ortega	The Evolution of the GeoNode Community Jeffrey Johnson	Train the users! No GIS is easy... Erik Meerburg	Bringing benthic data to the surface - moving Marine Recorder into an open source spatial database. James Hutchison	Open Source Street Routing With PgRouting For Local Government - Dynamic Data and Performance Joseph Miller	Academic Track From global observations to local information: The Earth Observation Monitor Jonas Eberle
17:00	Auditing PostgreSQL Databases Using Logical Decoding Sebastian Schmidt	geotiff.js and plotty.js - Visualizing Scientific Raster Data in the Browser Fabian Schindler	One year of open governance for OTB: thoughts and context Manuel Grizonnet	Visualizing uncertainty in data Sven Christ	Academic Track Analysing the practical feasibility of FOSSGIS in military operations – A Cholera outbreak use case Susanna Jacoba Henrico et al.	---	The Blue Hub, an integrated analysis platform with a WebGIS front-end to exploit maritime Big Data Vincenzo Gammieri
17:30	BoF Sessions I								Bof's
19:00	Ice Breaker
after	Pub Race

Thursday 25.8.
Time	Plenary Chamber	Room Bonn	Room Berlin	Fireplace Room	Rhinelobby	Tunnel	Plenary Office	Lab1
08:45	Introduction by Conference Chair Day 2								Come Together Session
09:00	Keynote III Thomas Zerweck (Munich Reinsurance)								Come Together Session

	Session Chair: Pekka Sarkola	Session Chair: Ari Jolma	Session Chair: Jorge Gustavo Rocha	Session Chair: NA	Session Chair: Scott Clark	Session Chair: Sven Böhme	Session Chair: Andrea Antonello		Morning Session 1
09:30	QGIS what's new Marco Hugentobler	Develop without developing Karl-Magnus Jönsson	GeoExt3 — Universal WebGIS applications with OpenLayers 3 und ExtJS 6 Christian Mayer et al.	---	Mastering Security with GeoServer and GeoFence Simone Giannecchini	deegree Enterprise - Open Source to get a grip on complex spatial data infrastructure demands Torsten Friebe et al.	3D Tools in gvSIG using NASA World Wind Óscar Martinez Olmos
10:00	QGIS 3: plans, wishes and challenges Hugo Mercier	Command Line Geography Erik Escoffier	GeoMapFish 2 - Ready for the Future Yves Bolognini et al.	---	Enterprise Single Sign-On in GeoServer: where do we stand? Francesco Bartoli	MapProxy in practice Oliver Tonnhofer	Academic Track Is there life in Virtual Globes? Theofilos Papadopoulos et al.
Coffee Break (10:30 - 11:00)
	Session Chair: Johan van de Wauw	Session Chair: Jachym Cepicky	Session Chair: Kari Salovaara	Session Chair: Paul van Genuchten	Session Chair: Erik Meerburg	Session Chair: NA	Session Chair: NA	Topic Talk From big to small, and keeping track of it all - what is LocationTech working on? Andrea Ross,Joe Allnutt	Morning Session 2
11:00	State of GeoServer Jody Garnett et al.	Open Source Photogrammetry with OpenDroneMap Dakota Benjamin	Using SQLite to take maps offline on mobile devices Dino Ravnic	The OGC's Standards Process and the Role of Reference Implementations Athina Trakas et al.	Open Data Revolution of the Deutsche Bahn (German Railways) Alexey Valikov	Cheap (and good) data capture for environmental projects David Currie	Free, Open and Libre María Arias de Reyna
11:30	GeoServer in Production: we do it, here is how! Simone Giannecchini et al.	Academic Track A Framework for an Open Source Geospatial Certification Model F.-J. Behr et al.	The most popular OpenStreetMap editing application Ilya Zverev	Validating services and data in an SDI Clemens Portele et al.	Effects of Opening up Data (Hans) Gregers Petersen	The economics of bringing a new geo product to market by leveraging open standards, FOSS and FOSS4G Michael Terner et al.	When politics meet maps there is no right Steven Feldman
12:00	geOrchestra SDI - Project Status Report François VAN DER BIEST	Using Open Source Tools to Visualize Spatial Activity Drone Restrictions Aäron Trippaers	Digital field mapping with Geopaparazzi and gvSIG Andrea Antonello et al.	OGC Soil Interoperability Experiment - Experiences in using a standard to exchange soil data Jorge Samuel Mendes de Jesus	Open Source as part of an Open Data initiative. Brent Wood	Commercializing open data in Norway Alexander Salveson Nossum	SMW @ OSGeo Wiki – How semantics improve the wiki and facilitate a collaborative database for OSGeo Christian Willmes
Break (12:30 - 13:30)
13:30	Keynote IV Bianca Hoersch ( ESA Centre for Earth Observation)								Afternoon Session 1
	Session Chair: Michael Blaschek	Session Chair: Gérald Fenoy	Session Chair: Jakob Ventin	Session Chair: Just van den Broecke	Session Chair: Jessica King	Session Chair: NA	Session Chair: Calvin Metcalf	Topic Talk Open Source Opportunities for Land Management Arnulf Christl,John Gitau
14:00	GeoNetwork: State of the Art María Arias de Reyna et al.	GDAL 2.1: what's new ? Even Rouault et al.	Magnacarto – Create map designs for MapServer and Mapnik Oliver Tonnhofer	Unleashing the potential of your sensor data with istSOS Milan Antonovic et al.	Open data and the 'power of the crowd' Jaap-Willem Sjoukema	Still waiting for someone else to do it: Writing documentation for an open source project Mike Pumphrey	A New Vision for OSGeo Jody Garnett
14:30	Scalability of GeoNetwork: Current Status and Future Directions Joana Simoes et al.	OpenDEM Generator: combining open access Digital Elevation Models into a homogenized DEM Luca Delucchi et al.	Creating Stunning Maps in GeoServer: mastering SLD and CSS styles Andrea Aime	Sensor Web for Oceanology Simon Jirka et al.	Academic Track Involving communities in environmental protection by Community Information Systems: the case study of “La Cuicadora” Domenico Vito	Bait and don't switch: Using FOSS4G to attract bright young talent Robert P. V. Nordan	Getting it done at LocationTech Jody Garnett et al.
15:00	Leveraging Big Geo Data through Metadata Joana Simoes et al.	Geospatial web services using little-known GDAL features and modern Perl middleware Ari Jolma	GeoServer Styling Hints and Tips for Prettier Maps Ian Turton	Microservice approach of sensor data integration Nikolai Bock	Development of national spatial information sharing system using the FOSS4G and CKAN , Drupal Yoichi Kayama	---	From a Knitting Podcast to a Geospatial Meetup. Building community to share your passion. Guido Stein
Coffee Break (15:30 - 16:00)
	Session Chair: Ant Scott	Session Chair: Sean Gillies	Session Chair: NA	Session Chair: David Currie	Session Chair: Martin Seiler	Session Chair: NA	Session Chair: Gérald Fenoy	Topic Talk Challenges and opportunities in improving crisis response and peacebuilding through Collaborative Mapping, Open Source Geospatial Technologies and Open Data Lars Wirkus,Fabian Selg	Afternoon Session 2
16:00	MapServer Status Report Thomas Bonfort et al.	mapchete - parallelized batch geoprocessing using Python Joachim Ungar	NextGIS Mobile - mobile GIS alternative Maxim Dubinin et al.	Delivering high resolution deformation maps with high performance and extensive proc Marco Duiker	Global Forest Watch: Using Open Data to Save the World’s Forests David Gonzalez	A RESTful API for linking geodata Francesco Bartoli	Software comes and goes. Mind the Data! Arnulf Christl
16:30	MapServer MapCache: Project Status Report Thomas Bonfort	Academic Track Development of a new framework for Distributed Processing of Big Geospatial Data Angéla Olasz et al.	Two-way-databinding on mobile applications with Yaga Arne Schubert	Academic Track Identification of SAR Detected Targets on Sea in Near Real Time Applications for Maritime Surveillance Sergey Voinov et al.	A crowd-sourced public transportation map for Nicaragua's capital Felix Delattre	How Linked Open Data finds the bar near you Rob van Loon	Durable geospatial data and the budding open-source ecosystem driving it Jack Reed
17:00	Stress Testing and Analysing MapServer Performance Seth Girvin	Academic Track Building applications with FOSS4G bricks: two examples of the use of GRASS GIS modules as a high-level "language"' for the analyses of continuous space data in economic geography Moritz Lennert	---	How to make a 3D web geoportal Gilbert Jeiziner	Academic Track Optimizing Last mile Vaccine Supply Chain in Northern Nigeria using FOSS4G Solutions Dami Sonoiki	Integrating the spatial web with linked open data using GeoDCAT-AP María Arias de Reyna et al.	Academic Track OSGeo conference videos as a resource for scientific research: The TIB\|AV Portal Peter Löwe et al.
17:30	meeting: OSGeo AGM	---	---	---	---	---	---
18:00	17h30 - 18h30	BoF Sessions
18:30 - 01:00	Gala Dinner Ship Cruise
01:00	Pub Race

Friday 26.8.
Time	Plenary Chamber	Room Bonn	Room Berlin	Fireplace Room	Rhinelobby	Tunnel	Plenary Office	Lab1
08:45	Introduction by Conference Chair Day 3								Come Together Session
09:00	Keynote V Ton Zijlstra (change management consultant)								Come Together Session

	Session Chair: Till Adams	Session Chair: Hans-Jörg Stark	Session Chair: Gérald Fenoy	Session Chair: Abdul Kadir Taib	Session Chair: NA	Session Chair: NA	Session Chair: Scott Clark	Topic Talk	Morning Session 1
09:30	What's new and cool in OpenLayers Andreas Hocevar et al.	Humanitarian Capacity Building and Preparedness with QGIS Ant Scott	A complete toolchain for object-based image analysis with GRASS GIS Moritz Lennert	GeoDataStore; governmental open data cloud storage and easy metadata creation Paul van Genuchten et al.	Using Mapillary data for editing maps Peter Neubauer	An overview of Docker images for geospatial applications Daniel Nüst	OpenSky Network - Crowdsourced and Open Air Traffic Surveillance Network Alexey Valikov
10:00	Interoperability with OpenLayers 3 Bart van den Eijnden	Building Sustainable Resilient Communities with FOSS4G and Open Data Jeffrey Johnson	Processing Copernicus Sentinel data with GRASS GIS Markus Neteler et al.	KNReise: OpenSource access to open, geospatial cultural and natural datasets Atle Frenvik Sveen	OSM Stats: Rewarding contributors and real-time tracking of OSM Matthew Hanson et al.	Integration testing of Web Mapping applications (including web mapping server) using Python Jáchym Čepický et al.	Open Source Motorsports Dan "Ducky" Little
10:30	Faster, smaller, better: Compiling your application together with OpenLayers 3 Tobias Sauerwein et al.	---	ORFEO ToolBox status report Manuel Grizonnet	---	Towards a more readable Openstreetmap based world map for westerners Sven Geggus	Borsch: modern build system for C/C++ GIS projects Dmitry Baryshnikov et al.	Academic Track Mapping WiFi measurements on OpenStreetMap data for Wireless Street Coverage Analysis Andrea Valenzano et al.
Coffee Break (11:00 - 11:30)
	Session Chair: Julien-Samuel Lacroix	Session Chair: Eddie Pickle	Session Chair: Adam Steer	Session Chair: Andrea Antonello	Session Chair: Michael Blaschek	Session Chair: Christian Willmes	Session Chair: NA	Topic Talk Open Data with Open Software - the Copernicus Program Markus Neteler, Christian Strobl	Morning Session 2
11:30	OL3-Cesium: 3D for OpenLayers Beraudo Guillaume	State of GeoGig Gabriel Roldán et al.	The new PyWPS-4: your Python based WPS server (PyWPS project report) Luís de Sousa et al.	Flood mapping and analysis platform based on open satellite data and free and open source geospatial Vasile Crăciunescu	Towards pycsw 2.0 - project report Angelos Tzotsos et al.	Using and extending GeoPackages Pirmin Kalberer	---
12:00	Point Clouds in a Browser with WebGL Daniel Kastl et al.	Collect & Manage Geospatial Data Edits with GeoSHAPE Syrus Mesdaghi	ZOO-Project 1.6.0: News about the Open WPS Platform Gérald Fenoy et al.	FloodWatch: Combining Wearable Tech + Disaster Alerts Tomas Holderness	Spatial data and the Search engines María Arias de Reyna et al.	GeoJSON and the IETF Sean Gillies	Real-time large format maps for passenger information on railway disruptions Mario Härtwig
12:30	iTowns, a new framework for 3D web visualization Vincent Picavet	An Open Source Approach to Multi-user Distributed Geospatial Data Management Dami Sonoiki	birdhouse: a collection of web processing services for climate data Nils Hempelmann	Spatial tools for LiDAR based watershed management and forestry analysis integrated in gvSIG Silvia Franceschi et al.	Implementing Open Geospatial Data Portals with CKAN, pycsw and PublicaMundi: the geodata.gov.gr case Angelos Tzotsos	---	MapFish Print 3: Reporting meets maps Tobias Sauerwein et al.
Break (13:00 - 14:00)
14:00	Keynote VI Klaus Deininger (World Bank)
	Session Chair: NA	Session Chair: Moritz Lennert	Session Chair: Paul van Genuchten	Session Chair: Ari Jolma	Session Chair: NA	Session Chair: NA	Session Chair: NA	Topic Talk	Afternoon Session 1
14:30	Vector Tiles with GeoServer and OpenLayers David Blasby et al.	The PDAL Pointcloud Engine Michael Smith	Crunching Data In GeoServer: Mastering Rendering Transformations, WPS Processes And SQL Views Andrea Aime	OpenSource tools for water network management Vincent Picavet et al.	Students Afternoon	Sponsor Slots	Sponsor Slots
15:00	Create Vector Tiles from OpenStreetMap Manuel Roth et al.	500+ Billion Points: Organizing Point Clouds as Infrastructure Connor Manning	Automating your analysis using SAGA Gis Johan Van de Wauw	IWRM* in Mongolia (MoMo): Managing geodata with SHOGun and empowering the people Hinrich Paulsen	Students Afternoon	Sponsor Slots	Sponsor Slots
15:30	Hosting vector tile maps on your own server Petr Sloup et al.	Towards open, interoperable, and transdisciplinary point clouds for high performance computing Adam Steer	hale studio: Effective Data Analysis and Transformation for Open Standards Thorsten Reitz	Academic Track GET-IT: an open source, free software for Long Term ecological research Simone Lanucara et al.	Students Afternoon	Sponsor Slots	Sponsor Slots
Coffee Break (16:00 - 16:30)
16:30	Keynote VII Peter Kusterer (IBM Germany)								Closing Session
17:00	Sol Katz Award & Students Award
17:30	Closing notes by Conference Chair
18:00	Pub Race

Conference Rooms
Keynoters

Our carefully selected keynoters will build bridges to the diversity of topics which they are specialised in. Look forward to our keynotes which will inspire you to build your own bridges to topics that might not have occurred to you before.

Andreas Veispak

Andreas Veispak, an Estonian, started his professional career at PricewaterhouseCoopers, working on and leading numerous projects across different sectors of the economy (industry, financial and insurance, telecommunications, transport, energy, the public sector) in fields related to economic development, strategic advisory, mergers & acquisitions, project finance, public-private-partnerships, due diligence and corporate recovery. He joined the European Commission in 2005 where he dealt with the automotive industry and was responsible for questions related to industrial competitiveness, energy and the environment. Between 2010 and 2015 he joined the team of the Director General of DG GROW at the European Commission (internal market, industrial competitiveness, space – Copernicus and Galileo – entrepreneurship and SMEs). He is currently the Head of Unit for Space Data for Societal Challenges and Growth at the European Commission. Andreas was educated at the University of Oxford where he studied Modern History.

The Space Data unit has been set up recently to reflect the fact that the Copernicus programme has become operational and that the European Commission increasingly needs to focus on extracting as much value as possible from the data and information it delivers. The mission of the unit is to maximise the uptake and use of Copernicus (and space data more generally) among different user groups so as to fully exploit the societal and economic potential it offers.

More specifically, the unit is responsible for data policy, management, dissemination and access (essentially everything data related), for determining current and future user needs and promoting user uptake across different communities, for facilitating the development of new business models and stimulating innovation and new product/ service development in the downstream sector, for international relations of Copernicus as well as for communication and outreach activities.

Bianca Hoersch

Bianca, a German national, has been working at ESA’s Earth Observation Centre in Frascati, Italy, since 2004. As Third Party Mission Manager, Bianca has been responsible for ensuring access to Earth observation data from a wide range of partners around the globe, among them NASA, JAXA, ISRO, and KARI, interacting also with commercial data providers, European governments and user organisations.
In 2015, as Mission Manager of the Sentinel-2 Copernicus Mission, Bianca took over the end-to-end project responsibility for the satellites' exploitation phase.

Bianca received a PhD in natural sciences from the University of Bonn, Germany, in a thesis with specialisation on high mountain remote sensing, geo-informatics and digital-elevation-models, supported by DLR and a scholarship of the German Research Council/DfG.

Klaus Deininger

Klaus Deininger is Lead Economist at the Development Research Group pf the World Bank. His areas of research focus is on income and asset inequality and its relationship to poverty reduction and growth. Access to land, land markets and land reform and their impact on household welfare and agricultural productivity play a major role in reducing poverty. Land tenure and its impact on investment, including environmental sustainability in turn are core economic factors for growth but also a better livelihood. In his blog Klaus Deininger says that: "Advances in earth observation, computing power, and connectivity have tremendous potential to help governments, and us at the World Bank, support better land management, and ultimately reduce poverty and promote shared prosperity." In a recent interview with Geospatial Media he further notes that: "...we are increasingly helping countries to develop Open Source solutions to make sure that they can be maintained in the long run." Klaus Deininger is a German national with a Ph.D. in Applied Economics from the University of Minnesota, an MA in Agricultural Economics from the University of Berlin, and an MA in theology from the University of Bonn.

Peter Kusterer

Peter Kusterer is heading Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs in IBM Germany since 2008. Being more than 30 years with IBM he held various executive positions also oversseeing international operations in Europe, Middle East and Africa. He holds a master of business administration (Diplom-Kaufmann) of the University of Cologne (1983).
Besides leading Citizenship for IBM Germany he is member of the steering commitee of a business network of Citzenship managers, member of Bundesnetzwerk bürgerschaftliches Engagement, a cross-sector net work on civic engagement for Germany, and different regional CSR networks. His focus is on Corporate Volunteering/probono as a unique form of civic engagement and foundation of corporate culture. Additional areas of his work are the impact of digital transformation on education systems and civil society organisation. Currently the migration challenge and the contribution of business consume a large part of his activities among which he also engages in his community's refugee initiative.
He is married and has two children.

Dirk Frigne

In his professional life, Dirk is founder and CEO of Geosparc. He has extensive software development experience as a developer, architect, project manager and has been involved with the development and implementation of numerous IT infrastructures using a variety of technologies on multiple platforms. In an IT career spanning more than 30 years, Dirk understands that leadership and team building are the keys to successful IT and development projects. His key skills are situated in the valorisation of specialised state of the art technology trough bringing technical experts into contact with the right commercial and marketing teams for a perfect fit. Dirk was project manager for several projects amongst them, the open source project “Generic GIS for e-Government” and the OSGeo project Geomajas. Dirk is is a member of the advisory board of the Industrial Industry Fund (university of Ghent) and part of the "geospatial datainfrastructure" (GDI) advisory board of Flanders. Dirk is an OSGeo member since 2007, became a charter member in 2013 and is since January 2016 vice president of OSGeo.

In 2015 Dirk took the initiative, together with a team of enthusiastic open source adepts to found The Belgium OSGeo local chapter, and is actively involved in the organisation of the Belgian FOSS4G.be event.

Dirk is evangelising the foundation of the European chapter, which is right now under construction, discussing the goals and principles.

Thomas Zerweck

Thomas studied geography in Munich and Bonn and finalized with a grade as M.Sc. in Geography. His thesis dealt with high mountain research and GIS. From 1998 to 2003 he was co-founder and managing director of ZEBRIS, Geoinformation Systems and Consulting, a SME located in Munich. The company provides services and products in GIS, Remote Sensing and Environmental Management. From 2004 to 2014 he was a freelancing GIS Expert for various companies in GIS Development, Business Analysis, GIS Architecture and Project management and also lecturer for Web Cartography at the Department of Geoinformation of the University for applied sciences in Munich.

Since 2014 he is expert for Geospatial Solutions at Munich Re, one of the biggest reinsurance companies in the world. His main responsibilities are building a Geospatial Platform within the company and for Munich Re’s Partners and clients; providing business units with Geospatial consulting; transferring geospatial data, services, solutions and know-how to the business; integrating GIS and Remote sensing information from satellites and drones into Risk and Claims management.

Ton Zijlstra

Ton Zijlstra (1970) is an independent change management consultant, with a preference for complex change issues provoked by new technology. He has a background in technology and philosophy. With 15+ years experience in how digitisation changes the ways we work, learn, connect, live, and how it shapes the networked society, he has a thorough understanding of the social impact of digital technology. Working from his hometown in the Netherlands across Europe and beyond, he is a key connector and enabler for open data.

Since 2008 he has been active in open (government) data which he sees as a next wave of digital disruption creating new opportunities and challenges for public sector bodies, citizens and corporations alike. He worked and works for various local, national and international government bodies to help 'do' open data on both the strategic and operational level. He did the first exploration of open data for the Dutch government, and in 2010 created the plans for the Dutch national data portal. A 2 year stint as project lead of the ePSIplatform.eu for the European Commission, further strengthened his connections to most open data initiatives in the EU. Since 2011 he has worked with the World Bank, most recently as senior expert on open data in Kazachstan, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia and Serbia. In 2011, together with three colleagues he founded the open data consultancy company The Green Land, http://thegreenland.eu, working with government bodies across Europe..

In his spare time Ton works on another digital disruption wave: digital manufacturing and FabLabs. He was the chairman of the FabLab Foundation in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, a network of 25 FabLabs, and still advises FabLabs on a regular basis. He was 2010-2015 also a voluntary board member of the 10.000+ Dutch community "Civil Servant 2.0" which focusses on the changing work routines of the public sector under influence of social media, co-creation and open data.

He is a regular speaker and guest lecturer across Europe on diverse aspects of the impact of digitisation: networked learning, complexity management, social media, open data, and digital manufacturing. Every few years he organizes a conference in his home on these topics, for clients, friends, family and peers as a birthday party. Anton has been blogging at http://zylstra.org/blog about his professional interests since 2002.

Blog: http://zylstra.org/blog

Linkedin: https://linkedin.com/in/tonzijlstra

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ton_zylstra

Company: http://thegreenland.eu/
Topic Talks

“An overview of the best Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial“

Angelos Tzotsos

This session provides an overview of the breadth of quality geospatial open source applications, which are available for the full range of geospatial use cases, including storage, publishing, viewing, analysis and manipulation of data.

This session includes an introduction to the OSGeo-Live project, a short description of the included software, short presentations from contributors and linked projects, an in-depth technical discussion of the build process and a discussion of the future roadmap.

The introductory presentation is based upon documentation from OSGeo-Live, which is a Lubuntu-based geospatial GNU/Linux distribution delivered as a self-contained DVD, USB thumb drive and Virtual Machine. It includes over 50 of the best geospatial, open source applications, pre-configured with data, project overviews and quick-starts, translated into multiple languages. It is an excellent tool for demonstrating GeoSpatial Open Source, using in tutorials and workshops, or providing to potential new users. This presentation is very useful for anyone wishing to gain a high level understanding of the breadth of geospatial open source available.

“become INSPIRE'd by OSGeo“

Dirk Frigne, Robin Smith

Raise interest in the new opportunities INSPIRE will introduce for FOSS

INSPIRE is an important EU directive which matters to OSGeo members. Many of us are already part of it... and this is only the beginning. The INSPIRE's technical framework will evolve and there is an immense opportunity for open source communities to help and benefit. Examples and idea's will be presented and the way forward for OSGeo will be discussed.

For the business people amongst us, there will be business opportunities to help implement INSPIRE or build applications on top of it.

for the academic, there will be research opportunities, to make use of the data coming from the infrastructure, making it easy to analyse official data.

and for the people working for government it is a great opportunity to get into contact with a great eco-system of people connected into great FOSS projects.

The results and conclusions of the workshop at GWF in Rotterdam from May 2016 will also be presented.

A not-to-miss event for everybody seriously involved in FOSSGIS!

“Disaster Mapping: Challenges and opportunities in improving crisis response and peacebuilding through Collaborative Mapping, Open Source Geospatial Technologies and Open Data"

Lars Wirkus, Fabian Selg

Organizers:
International Working Group on Satellite Based Emergency Mapping (IWG-SEM)/ UN-SPIDER, Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)

Description:
In satellite-based and participatory crisis mapping, collaborative sharing and editing of (geo-) information is crucial to a successful response. Free and Open Source tools and technologies represent a cornerstone in many collaborative mapping approaches. We invite software developers, data producers and end-users of information to participate in the exchange of best practices, open issues and experiences, particularly within the collaborative mapping workflows of information sharing, real time editing and evaluation. Besides practical aspects also ethical challenges in collecting, providing, sharing and visualizing data in an open and secure manner during emerging crises as well as the responses thereof will be addressed.

Tags:
Earth Observation, Open source Geospatial Technologies, Satellite Images, Remote Sensing, Open Data, Collaboration, Humanitarian, Disaster, Emergency Response

“Open Data with Open Software - the Copernicus Programm“

Christian Strobl, Markus Neteler

The Copernicus programme of the European Union provides Terabytes of remote sensing data every day. The continuing processing of this huge amount of data with open source software is a chance and a challenge for many organisations. In this topic talk we discuss real world applications and show also technical solutions for processing chains based on Sentinel data.

“From big to small, and keeping track of it all - what is LocationTech working on?“

Andrea Ross, Rob Emanuele, Joe Allnutt

LocationTech is a geospatial working group hosted by the Eclipse Foundation, a not-for-profit hosting open source projects. The group has just turned 3 years old, and continues to grow. This topic talk presents a series of talks on what LocationTech has been working on.

Processing Geospatial at Scale
LocationTech is home to set of 4 open source projects dealing with large geospatial datasets: GeoTrellis, GeoWave, GeoMesa, and GeoJinni (sense a pattern?).

These projects were created to solve the type of problems that we are seeing more and more of: how do we ask very large geospatial data questions concerning location? In this talk, Rob will give an introduction to those four projects, and talk about how each project approaches processing geospatial data at scale.

This talk covers the basics, such as:

- what does "processing geospatial data at scale" mean exactly?

- a introduction and history of Hadoop, Spark, and Accumulo

- What are GeoTrellis, GeoMesa, GeoWave, and GeoJinni? How are they different?

If you're new to distributed processing, you should leave this talk with a better sense of the field, and if you're a veteran, you should leave with a better idea which of these project might fit your distributed geospatial processing needs.

GeoGig: A Git-Like Approach To Geospatial

In the talk Joe will: Explain how to get up and running with GeoGig Work through how to manage changing datasets Demonstrate the QGIS GeoGig Plugin Run through using GeoGig to work with example open data Walk through a scenario with multiple distributed contributors Talk through the findings of TechLab's work with GeoGig so far

“How Open Source and Open Standards development profit from each other“

Athina Trakas, Ingo Simonis

This topic talk highlights the close relationship of Open Source software and Open Standards development. The coordination of increasingly faster development of geospatial Open Source software and more longer term oriented standards presents some challenges which have been identified and taken up by key organizations of the domain. Building on the geospatial track of the Apache: Big Data 2016 Conference one aim is to follow up on identified project coordination actions to be undertaken after the Apache Conference.

“Open Source Tools and Governance for Land Management“

Arnulf Christl, John Gitau

Access to land, land ownership and tax on real property are the key assets of any national economy. Good governance in land management is a key factor for social stability, prosperity and economic development. One key component for good land management is location based data and the information that be derived thereof. Many nations still even lack basic maps to help identify issues in land governance. With the growing availability of air borne and satellite acquired geospatial data, Open Data projects like OpenStreetMap are growing and start to play an increasingly important role for land management, especially in the so called developing world. This Topic talk will explore the opportunities Open Source tools provide for processing and analyzing geospatial data for Land Management. The associated open governance models are key to the success of implementing sustainable solutions on nationwide distributed systems based on the mantra of thinking globally and acting locally.
Scientific Track

As in previous FOSS4G conferences the FOSS4G 2016 Scientific Track provides a strong basis for building bridges for intensified collaboration among researchers, developers, users, and practitioners carrying out research and development in the geospatial field using open source geospatial software, standards.

We feature academic papers describing:

the use of open source geospatial software, standards, and data, in and for scientific research, as well as

academic endeavours to conceptualize, create, assess, and teach open source geospatial software and data.

In May the chosen papers will be announced

Themes

We will feature contributions from the following themes:

Architectures and frameworks for open source software and data

Business Models for Open Source / Open Data

Data Quality, Software Quality and Service Quality

Community Building

Doing more for less: Assessment of costs and benefits of open source applications and open source business models

Use of Open Data in public administration and services

FOSS and FOSS4G: Is spatial special?

Approaches to combine open and closed software

Teaching Geospatial Sciences with open source solutions

History of Geospatial Open Standards

Open Database Protection

Open Data Resources, Linked Open Data, Open Data Commons, Open Data Best Practices

Open Data Technologies and Interoperability

Cross-border approaches, Political Open Data Support, Licensing Policies

Open Source GIS application use cases, i.e., in planning, administration, infrastructure, environment and disaster management, and business

Implementation and benefits of open standards, needs for further developments in standardization

Location Based Services

Indoor and Outdoor Location and Mapping

Unmanned Aerial Systems: Open Hardware and Software

Urban Science/City Analytics

Citizen science and user generated content

Big Geo Data

Internet of Things and Internet of Places

We invite academics and researchers to submit full papers in English, of maximum 6,000 words, before the deadline. Submissions should follow the templates provided [5].

Important Dates

~~Paper Submission Deadline: March 21th 2016~~

~~Extended Submisson Deadline: March 28th 2016~~

~~Decision Announcement: May 15th 2016~~

Revisions Due: July 5th 2016 (planned)

FOSS4G Conference: August 24h-16th 2016

Final submission for the journal: September 2016

Review process

We expect to select 20-25 papers for presentation and publication. Your contributions will be reviewed (double-blind) by geospatial experts, who will assess the papers on originality and academic rigour, as well as interest for the worldwide FOSS4G and Open Data community.

Based on your presentation in Bonn, as well as discussion with the editors, a final selection will be made, and a final round of editing will be undertaken. In this way we hope to encourage and help especially early-stage researchers (PhD students, post-doc scientists) to strive for high-quality papers.

8-10 papers will be published in a special issue of the renowned international online journal Transactions in GIS [1] and/or the International Journal of Cartography which was recently launched [2]. The remaining papers will be published in the online OSGeo Journal [3].

Contact:

If you have any questions, please contact the chairs of the academic committee:

Dr. Franz-Josef Behr, Professor of Spatial Information Processing, Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart, franz-josef.behr@hft-stuttgart.de

Dr. A.P. Pradeepkumar, Professor of Geology, Dept of Geology, University of Kerala, Trivandrum, geo.pradeep@keralauniversity.ac.in

[1] Transactions in GIS. Published by Wiley; impact factor 1.398; SI Journal Citation Reports © Ranking: 2014: 26/76 (Geography), edited by: John P. Wilson, Qiming Zhou and Alex Singleton. Online ISSN: 1467-9671. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28ISSN%291467-9671

[2] International Journal of Cartography. edited by: William Cartwright and Anne Ruas, ISSN 2372-9333 (print), 2372-9341 (online). http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=editorialBoard&journalCode=tica20

[3] OSGeo Journal, the official Journal of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation; http://journal.osgeo.org/index.php/journal

[4] FOSS4G 2016, Time Schedule: http://2016.foss4g.org/programme.html#overview

[5]Template for submission: http://2016.foss4g.opencts.org/downloads/FOSS4G2016_templates.zip

Poster Session

In addition to scientific papers the Scientific Track Committee also reviewed posters for the scientific poster session. Submission is closed now.

GIS.lab: Hydrological modeling on the Web

Landa

OSPER — a real-time environmental sensor platform

Kryvych, Fiddes, Calbimonte, Fierz, et al.

Development of OGC WPS-based Climate Data Visualization Service Using PyWPS and Matplotlib

Lee

Classification of land use/cover change in the Kanto region, Japan using FOSS4G and Open Data

Iwasaki, Sprague, Sprague, Onohara, et al.

Shapefile Projectionfinder

Egger

GeoTools extension for 3D Geometry

Kim, Kim, Ryoo, Seo, Li

Dubaisat Vegetation Monitoring Tool for Mobile Devices

Calisto

Cocobot:An Efficient Road Change Detection System using GPS Trajectory Data Set

Chung, Kim

How to cross a square?

Miksch

Modelling concrete and abstract geoprocessing workflows with ILWIS 4

Lemmens

Development of Environment Spatial Information Service Utilizing Mobile Location-Based Technology

Yoon

Open Source Geospatial Applications to support River Basin Management in Kharaa River Basin (KRB), Mongolia

Hofmann, Bremerich, Gröning, Jansen, et al.

Modelling Population Interactions: the PySAL and Open Source Way

Barry

An Open Source Solution for Rapid and Automatic UAV Mapping

Cheon

Turning Copernicus Sentinel-2 data into OGC Web Services

Neteler

Spatial Modeling of Field Traffic Intensity using Open Source GIS Applications

K. Augustin, M. Kuhwald and R. Duttmann

The Construction of Open Data Portal using DKAN for Integrate to Multiple Japanese Local Government Open Data

Toshikazu Seto, Yoshihide Sekimoto

Web Platform for Data Visualization and Sharing

Siwoon Jung

Important Dates

~~Poster Submission Deadline:May 26th 2016~~
~~Decision Announcement: June 15th 2016~~
FOSS4G Conference: August 24h-26th 2016

Review process

16 posters were selected for presentation at the conference. The contributions were reviewed (double-blind) by geospatial experts, who assessed the posters on originality and academic rigour, as well as interest for the worldwide FOSS4G and Open Data community.

Contact:

If you have any questions, please contact the chairs of the academic committee:

Dr. Franz-Josef Behr, Professor of Spatial Information Processing, Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart, franz-josef.behr@hft-stuttgart.de
Dr. A.P. Pradeepkumar, Professor of Geology, Dept of Geology, University of Kerala, Trivandrum, geo.pradeep@keralauniversity.ac.in

Map Gallery

We have 5 digital maps to show:

Map5 NLTopo

TRAVIC Transit Visualization Client

MAP YOUR BEER

Birmingham Accidents

Arctic Sea Ice

Workshops

22th - 23th August

Taking part in a workshop is your opportunity to learn how to apply or develop OSGeo software and other open source geospatial tools directly from the people who are the core developers of this software.

Workshops are a valuable component of every FOSS4G conference. They are 4 hours instructional sessions in a computer lab setting. Workshop instructors provide software, data and materials to instruct 20 to 30 people. We have 10 rooms in parallel equipped with computers for the participants (one computer for two participants) which are set up with the most recent OSGeo Live Environment. There are two more workshops whithout computers.

If you booked a workshop at FOSS4G 2016 in Bonn, here are some information for you:

Please find out the location of your workshop in the schedule below. It is either Gustav-Stresemann Institut (where most workshops are) or Deutsche Welle. Find out how to get there here. We open the registration at each location at 8 o'clock for the morning workshops and at 13 o'clock for the afternoon workshops. Please consider waiting times to plan your arrival for the workshops to start on time.

You don't need to bring anything except your workshop description says so or your workshop leader informed you otherwise. During the workshop you will share a laptop with another participant.

If you booked a morning and afternoon workshop on the same day, you will get lunch.

Schedule

Monday - 22nd

location: Gustav-Stresemann-Institut e.V

Session Code	Morning 9-13	Room	lunch 13‑14	Session Code	Noon 14-18	Room
WS01	ZOO-Project Introduction Workshop	S 17		WS12	PyWPS Workshop	S 17
WS02	~~gvSIG Desktop developer workshop: how to create plug ins using Java~~ REPLACED BY: Enterprise class deployment for GeoServer and GeoWebcache: Optimizing performances and robustness	S 18		WS13	Running INSPIRE Download Services on Docker with deegree and PostgreSQL	S 18
WS03	Introduction to GeoTools	S 5		WS14	GeoTools DataStore Workshop	S 29
WS04	Hands-on mapping with Mapillary	S 29		WS15	Creating Leaflet plugins	S 27+28
WS05	Mapbender3 - get to know the powerful Geoportal Framework	S 27+28		WS16	Introduction to OpenLayers	S 5
WS06	Web mapping with OGC services and GeoServer: an introduction	S 6		WS17	Beyond GeoServer Basics	S 6
WS07	QGIS from vector to raster and back again	S 25+26		WS18	Advanced spatial analysis with the QGIS Processing framework	S 25+26
WS08	Workshop: Building Dynamic Maps with CartoDB	S 30		WS19	Publish your geodata in online/offline mobile apps	S 30

location: Deutsche Welle

Session Code	Morning 9-13	Room	lunch 13‑14	Session Code	Noon 14-18	Room
WS09	Massage your Point Cloud data	108		WS20	Geopaparazzi and gvSIG: never out of data in the field	108
WS10	Managing Versioned Data with QGIS using GeoGig	110		WS21	Which city is the cultural capital of Europe? An intro to Apache PySpark for Big Data GeoAnalysis	110
WS11	Introduction to Open Source Geospatial	104		WS22	I have data with TIME, ELEVATION and other dimensions: what can GeoServer do for me?	104

Tuesday - 23rd

location: Gustav-Stresemann-Institut e.V

Session Code	Morning 9-13	Room	lunch 13‑14	Session Code	Noon 14-18	Room
WS23	All you need to know to manage your sensor observation with istSOS	S 17		WS33	Observation Data in INSPIRE: OGC SOS as INSPIRE Download Service	S 17
WS24	GeoNetwork from scratch	S 5		WS34	Hook your own customizations into GeoNetwork	S 18
WS25	GeoNode Developers Workshop	S 18		WS35	Building geo search applications with Elasticsearch	S 5
WS26	A Leaflet map with Node.js, MongoDB and Heroku	S 29		WS36	Building Standards Compliant Geospatial Web Applications - the Quick and Easy MapMint Way	S 29
WS27	Unleash the power of GRASS GIS 7	S 27+28		WS37	Introduction to MapFish Print 3: Maps, Templates and Reports	S 6
WS28	GeoServer Styling Workshop	S 6		WS38	Enterprise class deployment for GeoServer and GeoWebcache: Optimizing performances and robustness	S 25+26
WS29	Creating a full featured spatial data infrastructure around QGIS and PostGIS	S 25+26		WS39	QGIS Plugin Development with PyQt4 and PyQGIS	S 30
WS32	GeoPython	S 30		WS40	~~Rapid deployment of complete open source geospatial infrastructure with GIS.lab~~ REPLACED BY: GeoPython	S 27+28

location: Deutsche Welle

Session Code	Morning 9-13	Room	lunch 13‑14	Session Code	Noon 14-18	Room
WS30	Creating WebGIS Applications with GeoExt 3	104		WS42	FOSS4G routing with pgRouting	104
WS31	Managing CityGML-based 3D city models in PostGIS and Cesium using the 3DCityDB Stack	110		WS41	Serve your GIS 3D data to the Web	110

Roomplans

workshop location

Important Dates

~~Call for Workshops starts 21st January~~
~~Call for Workshops closes 21st March~~
~~Workshop Selection Results will be announced on 8th April~~
~~Detailed Workshop Program will be announced on 15th April~~
~~Workshop leader/s have to register until July, 10th~~
Workshop will be on 22th and 23rd August

If you have any questions please contact workshops@foss4g2016.org

B2B Meeting

23rd August

FOSS4G is a platform for business and networking. Companies, contractors, and freelance developers do business with and around geospatial Open Source software. Without this commercial backing the community would not have been able to experience the growth it has in the past years.

Networking and collaboration is an especially strong asset when it comes to make business in the Open Source realm. Customers heavily rely on networking between businesses, often without even knowing. At the same time Open Source is heavily competitive and both know-how and experience are scarce to find. Therefore it is crucial to grow and sustain partnerships and rely on networking.

FOSS4G offers a unique opportunity for businesses large and small to meet once a year and exchange ideas, get updated and talk business. The premier event to get started is the Business to Business conference on Tuesday, August 23rd, just a day before the main conference starts. The format we've chosen for this B2B is called "Pecha Kucha" (http://www.pechakucha.org/). Every participant gets a chance to present their business – in exactly 5 minutes (not six!), with exactly 20 slides which are on screen for 15 seconds each. This format keeps presentations concise and fast-⁠paced and will liven up our "Pecha Kucha Night". The order of the talks will be drawn live, so that you never know, when your time comes.

At the end we will vote and determine the best presentation and ask the presenter to give another 5 minute talk - based on our slides ;-). Besides the Pecha Kucha talks there will be plenty of space, coffee and time to get into direct contact with all other participants.

All this happens right before the main conference starts, so that you have lots more opportunities to build your network!

Attending the B2B conference is free for all sponsors. We are happy to invite everybody else but have to ask you to buy a ticket for 35,- €. The B2B event will take place on August, 23rd in IHK Bonn from 11:30 to 17:30. After the event we will start our first pub night in Bonn to continue networking.

If you have any questions please contact info@foss4g2016.org

Preliminary Schedule

Address of IHK Bonn:

Bonner Talweg 17
53113 Bonn
Germany

11:30	Start/KickOff
11:45-12:30	1st block of presentations
12:30-13:00	Break
13:00	Keynote Andrea Ross
13:45-14:30	2nd block of presentations
14:30-15:00	Break
15:00-15:45	3rd block of presentations
15:45-16:15	Break
16:15-17:00	4th block of presentations
17:00-17:15	Final: Vote for winner
17:20-17:30	Winners talk
17:30	Official end
18:30	Walk to the Official Reception of the City of Bonn

Keynote:

Andrea Ross

Andrea Ross, Location Tech, Eclipse Foundation

Busting Myths part 2: Is Open Source anti-business?
This talk by Andrea Ross explores various facets of how Open Source and business relate. Is Open Source hostile to business? Can businesses make money with Open Source? What is the history here? How have things changed over time? What are some of the best practices that people can learn from? This talk aims to provide a primer on this interesting topic.

Moderator:

Isabell Chumi

Isabell Chumi

Isabell Chumi, 26, is a pharmaceutical Account Manager at the full Service agency Publicis Pixelpark (Cologne, Germany). She holds a Bachelor's degree in "European Public Health" and "International Health" from Maastricht University, Netherlands. Additionally she holds a Master's degree in "Health Economics" from UDE, Germany. Before joining Publicis Pixelpark, she worked at the Federal Ministry of Health Education in Germany. Football, sports and interacting with other people are her great passions.

Code Sprints

Part I: 21st - 23rd August

Part II: 27th - 28th August

location: BaseCamp Bonn

This year, once again, we are following the old tradition of hosting a codesprint on the FOSS4G. More precisely, we offer a setting so that individual projects can meet for their codesprint. Since projects benefit from each other as well, the codesprint will naturally be held conjointly at one place.
Unfortunately, circumstances have forced us to divide the codesprint timetable-wise.

The first part is scheduled to take place directly before the conference, the second immediately after. The first two and a half days start on Sunday, August 21, 2016 at around noon and are scheduled to end on Tuesday, August 23, 2016 (open end). The 2nd part starts in the morning of Saturday, August 27, 2016 and ends on Sunday at 12 pm.

We are happy to have found a really awesome location for you. Codesprint and accommodations are combined in one hall. Check out http://www.basecamp-bonn.com for details about the venue.
Working zones will be created for you in the breakfast area and hallways. There’s the option of finding relatively inexpensive sleeping accommodations in train sleeping cars, camping buses, classic cars and more. Additionally, an outdoor area is available for you to enjoy Bonn’s summer weather in August, while working. Healthy and not-so-healthy catering of drinks and snacks will be provided by us. Participation in codesprint is free of charge. However, overnight stays will have to be reserved and paid for by you.

Another hint: the BaseCamp is within walking distance from the conference venue (WCCB) and has good access to public transportation – the Icebreaker takes place here, too.
You see, it’s worthwhile booking here!

As the accommodations are available to all FOSS4G participants, we will make an effort to make advance booking possible for you a few days ahead, to ensure you have the opportunity to sleep on-site and wrap up the evenings jointly. For that, it’s necessary for you to sign up (https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2016_Code_Sprint) and leave your email address so that we can contact you immediately when accomodation booking is available. In case BaseCamp is booked out, the hotel Bonnox) is nearby. We need your sign-up for the planning of snacks and drinks, too!

This is open to all who wish to participate in one or more projects. There’s always plenty to do – it’s not all about programming. Translation, documentation, feedback, discussions, testing – all this is also important for project so everyone is cordially invited to attend the codesprints! Registration with the conference is not a prerequisite for participation in codesprint.

One thing we’d like to ask you: with an approx. 120 participants anticipated, the WLAN capacity will naturally be exhausted at some point. Please be sure to avoid huge on-site downloads of data, as this could impact the work of others. Thank you!

The Codesprint Organizing Team is looking forward to welcome you!

If you have any questions please contact codesprint@foss4g2016.org

Student's Presentations

On our student session we will have 4 talks. The students session will start Friday 14:30 in the Rhinelobby.

Programme

Jakob Miksch	Routing through Open Spaces
Stefan Schreinemacher	Applying smartphone sensors for evaluating sidewalk quality
Javier Muro	LST time series analysis to uncover trends in Wetlands
Fabián Santos	Genetic algorithm approach to calibrate a processing chain for a Landsat-based

Overview

Overview

Conference Programme

Conference Rooms

Keynoters

Andreas Veispak

Bianca Hoersch

Klaus Deininger

Peter Kusterer

Dirk Frigne

Thomas Zerweck

Ton Zijlstra

Topic Talks

“An overview of the best Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial“

“become INSPIRE'd by OSGeo“

“Disaster Mapping: Challenges and opportunities in improving crisis response and peacebuilding through Collaborative Mapping, Open Source Geospatial Technologies and Open Data"

“Open Data with Open Software - the Copernicus Programm“

“From big to small, and keeping track of it all - what is LocationTech working on?“

“How Open Source and Open Standards development profit from each other“

“Open Source Tools and Governance for Land Management“

Scientific Track

Themes

Important Dates

Review process

Contact:

Poster Session

GIS.lab: Hydrological modeling on the Web

OSPER — a real-time environmental sensor platform

Development of OGC WPS-based Climate Data Visualization Service Using PyWPS and Matplotlib

Classification of land use/cover change in the Kanto region, Japan using FOSS4G and Open Data

Shapefile Projectionfinder

GeoTools extension for 3D Geometry

Dubaisat Vegetation Monitoring Tool for Mobile Devices

Cocobot:An Efficient Road Change Detection System using GPS Trajectory Data Set

How to cross a square?

Modelling concrete and abstract geoprocessing workflows with ILWIS 4

Development of Environment Spatial Information Service Utilizing Mobile Location-Based Technology

Open Source Geospatial Applications to support River Basin Management in Kharaa River Basin (KRB), Mongolia

Modelling Population Interactions: the PySAL and Open Source Way

An Open Source Solution for Rapid and Automatic UAV Mapping

Turning Copernicus Sentinel-2 data into OGC Web Services

Spatial Modeling of Field Traffic Intensity using Open Source GIS Applications

The Construction of Open Data Portal using DKAN for Integrate to Multiple Japanese Local Government Open Data

Web Platform for Data Visualization and Sharing

Important Dates

Review process

Contact:

Map Gallery

Workshops

Schedule

Monday - 22nd

location: Gustav-Stresemann-Institut e.V

location: Deutsche Welle

Tuesday - 23rd

location: Gustav-Stresemann-Institut e.V

location: Deutsche Welle

Roomplans

Important Dates

B2B Meeting

Preliminary Schedule

Keynote:

Moderator:

Code Sprints

location: BaseCamp Bonn

Student's Presentations

Programme