Press Releases 2008
FOSSGIS 2008 - Program Finalized[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]
The German speaking Open Source GIS community meets from April 1st through 3rd 2008 in Freiburg, Germany to the yearly conference and fair.
The final program is now available and the organizing committee is happy to invite you to register.
http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/wiki/index.php/Anmeldung
44 Presentations will be held in technical, community, research, scientific and business blocks. Presentations are held by FOSSGIS practitioners and address developers, user and decision maker. Topics cover all walks of geo life starting with reports from the fast growing community project OpenStreetMap running along Ruby on Rails, latest software presentations and stretching to ministerial success stories about completely FOSS based spatial data infrastructures.
This year's workshop program introduces the software projects OpenLayers, Mapbender, kvwmap, GRASS, QGIS, gvSIG, deegree, UMN MapServer and GeoServer. Thematic workshops cover geo portal solutions, sensor GIS and a full scale SDI on a Live-CD.
http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/wiki/index.php/Workshops_2008
Workshop fees are €80,- per attendee and will help to fund the conference.
Throughout the conference the sponsoring companies will operate booths in the exhibition area to highlight the latest technology, show new products and solutions and talk business.
http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/wiki/index.php/Messe_Sponsoring_2008
The social event will take place in the Wodanhalle on the first day of the conference (Tuesday, April 1st).
Admission for the full program of the conference is free for everybody but please make sure to register before March 25th!
