Free and Open Source Learning Centre (FOSSLC) Summercamp in Ottawa

The Free and Open Source Learning Centre (FOSSLC) is a non-profit organization and every summer it hosts the FOSSLC Summercamp in Ottawa.

The conference will be on May 13, 14, and 15 at Algonquin College, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. This event will bring together industry, academia, government, and community to learn about open source. Over 40 talks during the conference will cover technical, legal, and business aspects of open source use in private industry, community, and government. This event is relevant to technical and non-technical audiences.

Themes:

1) Education using open source software

2) Business and ecosystem development using open source principles

3) Developing open source software

4) Developing using open source software

5) Legal issues including DRM, Case law, intellectual property

6) Open source in Government

Geospatial Panel Discussion (Watch/hear it online here)

Thurs 3:30pm

The GIS industry has been contrasted with the merging of Geospatial technologies into mainstream enterprise information technology. This panel of experts will discuss the trends, the challenges, and opportunities they are seeing today.

Panelists:

DM Solutions CEO - Dave McIlhagga

Autodesk Director of Technology, Mapping and Geospatial - Geoff Zeiss

OSGeo treasurer, GDAL/OGR lead developer - Frank Warmerdam

This panel will be chaired by Andrew Ross - Ingres / FOSSLC.