1. EOGEO Workshop Report WGISS 21 Allan Doyle adoyle@eogeo.org

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

3. WGISS 21 EOGEO Workshop Report 3 EOGEO TT Profile EOGEO TT Profile is up to date on http://wgiss.ceos.org/eogeo

4. WGISS 21 EOGEO Workshop Report 4 EOGEO Venues to date EOGEO 1996 - 5th International WWW Conference in ParisEOGEO 1996 EOGEO 1997 - WashingtonEOGEO 1997 EOGEO 1998 - SalzburgEOGEO 1998 EOGEO 1999 - Springfield, VirginiaEOGEO 1999 EOGEO 2000 - University College LondonEOGEO 2000 EOGEO 2001 - New Brunswick, CanadaEOGEO 2001 EOGEO 2002 - JRC, Ispra, ItalyEOGEO 2002 EOGEO 2004 - University College LondonEOGEO 2004 EOGEO 2005 - Minneapolis, Minnesota, USAEOGEO 2005 EOGEO 2006 - FOSS4G 2006 in Lausanne, Switzerland.EOGEO 2006

5. 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 http://www.eogeo.org/Workshops/

6. WGISS 21 EOGEO Workshop Report 6 EOGEO 2006 Workshop FOSS4G2006 - Free And Open Source Software for Geoinformatics http://www.foss4g2006.org/ –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 : https://www.osgeo.org/files/documents/42/104/Flyer 060503_4_std.pdf https://www.osgeo.org/files/documents/42/104/Flyer 060503_4_std.pdf

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

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

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

10. 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

11. 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