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Posted by Mark Iliffe on February 11, 2013

On behalf of the workshops and code sprint subcommittee we've decided to evangelise and seek feedback from the OSGEO community on what the potential attendees would like to see at FOSS4G. We've put together and agreed the following copy (after the line). Can we all ensure that it is diseminated to as many OSGEO and non-OSGEO mailing lists as possible to raise awareness and place/tweet it as a main blog item. 

Thanks - Mark.
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Workshops and code sprints are an integral part of the FOSS4G conference. It’s an opportunity for those with awesome projects from a community, technological or novelty perspective to showcase exemplar projects and demonstrate the cutting edge of geo.

Our theme is “Geo For All”. Accordingly there are many opportunities and ways to develop the workshops and code sprints. March 4th is the deadline for workshops submission. Over the next month we will be holding Google Hangouts, not just in GMT but for those in other timezones, from the west and east of the Americas to the Far East and Africa. We are actively seeking participation from all members of the OSGeo community; old hands as well as new ones. This is an opportunity to contribute and shape the type of workshops and code sprints that, you, the OSGeo community would like to see at this year’s FOSS4G in Nottingham.

We’d also like to hold a hackathon, building along the lines previous hackathons like RHoK, Sanitation Hackathon and Angel Hack, to support truly open source geospatial projects.

What we’ll need;



Europe and Africa: To Be Confirmed W/C 18th of February GMT | EAT |
Asia: WIB: Thursday 14th of February: WIB: 1300 | CST: 1400 | JST: 1500 with Mark Iliffe and Kate Chapman - https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/comid41v638djr2l02qqq5aa6ek
The Americas: Wednesday 20th February GMT: 20:00 | EST: 15:00 | PST: 12:00 with Matt Walker and Jo Cook - https://plus.google.com/events/cv67spbcpsnteir0e1tgtt7iiug

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Comments

Mark Iliffe on February 11, 2013:

I'll change the logo of the google hangouts once a High-Res logo of is available 1000px+

Barry Rowlingson on February 11, 2013:

Logo source svg files and some pngs are here:

http://2013.foss4g.org/Style/

up to 600px at the moment. I've also outlined the procedure for creating new PNGs from the SVG source via inkscape.

If you can't do that at the moment, just tell me the exact size and form you need (background colour, transparency etc) and I'll generate it when I get a chance. If you can use one of the preset sizes than that would be preferable...

Barry

Mark Iliffe on February 11, 2013:

Google wants 1000px plus. I would have upscaled myself, however my resources are scarce at the moment.

1000px wide at least, I think 400px tall. Unsure, however. Background doesn't matter. Cheers.

Sent from my mobile device, please excuse my brevity and potential errors.

Barry Rowlingson on February 11, 2013:

Is this a replacement for the 'hearts' in the background? Because that is only 940x280px. Maybe google is insisting on bigger and resizing it.

I've not used hangouts before, would it be easier to give me perms on it to tweak the graphics?

Mark Iliffe on February 11, 2013:

I've sorted it, it's not perfect, but the permissions on g hangout seem to be a nightmare! If you could do a 1000x300px that would be great however.

Barry Rowlingson on February 11, 2013:

http://2013.foss4g.org/Style/readymade/ now has a 1000x300 banner on white version - its just the logo left-justified in a white box...