Over 200 proposals were made for presentations at FOSS4G 2007. Narrowing these down to the required 120 would be an impossible task for one committee, so we’ve taken the community-based approach of allowing you to choose your favourites.
I completed my selection this morning, after visiting the website and getting an email telling me how to rate the proposals. It said “try to restrict yourself
to between 25 and 40 expressions of interest if you can”. I thought… no problem, I’ve never been to a conference where there’s that many interesting sessions. Wrong. In the end I (barely) made it into this window, but it took me over an hour of careful reading and weighing to decide which sessions I was most interested in.
The breadth of choice for FOSS4G 2007 attendees is going to be amazing, regardless of which proposals make the final cut. When you combine the unique opportunity of hands-on workshops (filling up fast), in-conference labs, and the amazing slate of presentations, the value is incredible. Especially if you register now to take advantage of the early-bird rate.
-J
#1 by Brian Timoney on June 30, 2007 - 7:49 pm
Jason:
Two months ago, I had never heard of WPS (OGC’s Web Processing Service spec), even though our company is very interested in the concept. Now I see at least 3-4 presentations touching on WPS–very interesting indeed.
Maybe there’s something to be said for last-minute paper submissions….
BT
#2 by Jason Birch on June 30, 2007 - 9:33 pm
Absolutely… as long as the “last minute” is far enough out that the organisers have time to bundle together related talks in the same session, size the rooms to the topics, etc, etc. :)
#3 by Sean Gillies on July 4, 2007 - 11:41 am
I’m less enthused about the community selecting the presentations. We might get balance, but only by accident. Worst case is we get multiple redundant WPS presentations, and redundant presentations about the OSGeo community.