EOGEO Workshop Report WGISS 21 Allan Doyle

WGISS 21 EOGEO Workshop Report 2 Overview EOGEO TT Profile EOGEO 2006 Workshop –Registration open! –Please submit abstracts!! EOGEO 2007 Workshop –Guidance needed

WGISS 21 EOGEO Workshop Report 3 EOGEO TT Profile EOGEO TT Profile is up to date on

WGISS 21 EOGEO Workshop Report 4 EOGEO Venues to date EOGEO th International WWW Conference in ParisEOGEO 1996 EOGEO WashingtonEOGEO 1997 EOGEO SalzburgEOGEO 1998 EOGEO Springfield, VirginiaEOGEO 1999 EOGEO University College LondonEOGEO 2000 EOGEO New Brunswick, CanadaEOGEO 2001 EOGEO JRC, Ispra, ItalyEOGEO 2002 EOGEO University College LondonEOGEO 2004 EOGEO Minneapolis, Minnesota, USAEOGEO 2005 EOGEO FOSS4G 2006 in Lausanne, Switzerland.EOGEO 2006

WGISS 21 EOGEO Workshop Report 5 EOGEO Workshops Developer oriented –Presentations are technical –Presented by technical developers Cutting edge –Abstracts due ~1-2 months before conference –Presentations, not papers, due at conference Demonstrations welcome –Specific demo sessions for interactions among developers

WGISS 21 EOGEO Workshop Report 6 EOGEO 2006 Workshop FOSS4G Free And Open Source Software for Geoinformatics –Lausanne Switzerland –September 12-15, 2006 –Large conference 400+ attendees are expected Maybe even 500 CEOS WGISS EOGEO is co-organizing, there is no specific EOGEO track. Themes of interest to WGISS are integrated into the tracks. Flyers : _4_std.pdf _4_std.pdf

WGISS 21 EOGEO Workshop Report 7 Hosts/Sponsors (1 of 2)

WGISS 21 EOGEO Workshop Report 8 Hosts/Sponsors (2 of 2)

WGISS 21 EOGEO Workshop Report 9 Planning for EOGEO 2007 WGISS coordination via EOGEO TT mailing list – ogeohttp://wgiss.ceos.org/mailman/listinfo/e ogeo –Contact a WITT member if you wish to join this list

WGISS 21 EOGEO Workshop Report 10 Planning for EOGEO 2007 Guidance needed –Venue We’ve been at Universities, Research Institutes, etc… –Partners We’ve been solo, and with partners With partners, it’s sometimes more difficult to develop an ideal conference Alone, we sometimes lack critical mass

WGISS 21 EOGEO Workshop Report 11 Planning for EOGEO 2007 Partnering Experiences –Connection to Digital Earth in 2001 was mixed –Connection to MUM3 in 2004 was positive –Connection to FOSS4G seems to be going well, but it’s a bit overwhelming in size Please consider suggesting ideas for 2007