The morning of the opening day of the GSDI 12 conference is dedicated to concurrent workshop and tutorial offerings. GSDI 12 invites attendees to submit proposals for workshops and extended tutorials. Please note that all workshops and tutorials will be opened to all GSDI 12 conference attendees at no additional cost.
Workshops and tutorials are expected to be instructional and address skills or a knowledge base germane to the development of spatial data infrastructure. Spatial data infrastructure is broadly defined here as the technology, policies, standards, human resources, and related activities necessary to acquire, process, distribute, use, maintain, and preserve spatial data. The infrastructure incorporates many sectors including commercial, government, NGO and non-profit sectors; applications may range from local to global scales.
Workshops with participatory aspects will be preferred over straight lectures. The tutorials and workshops should be led by recognized experts in the material to be taught.
Each workshop or tutorial proposed should be for a single 90-minute session. A typical conference participant may register for up to two 90-minute workshops or tutorials. A half-hour coffee break will be arranged between the two workshop sessions. An instructor whose proposal to offer a workshop is accepted will be expected to register for the conference before 1 August 2010.
Facilities for Workshops
All workshop rooms will be arranged in classroom style and tables will be provided for participants to rest their laptop computers. All rooms are equiped with standard computer projectors. Although wireless computer access is available for instructors and students, workshop or tutorial materials should be prepared and stored in CDs or USB drives rather than via live downloads. No computer labs are available in the conference venue; as such, workshop participants are advised to bring their own laptops in the event that hands-on computer exercises are conducted by instructors. Rooms will be of sufficient size to handle the pre-enrolled participants as well as any last minute enrollees.
Please provide the above headings and your responses in the body of an email (NOT as an attached file).
Descriptions of workshops offered at past GSDI Conferences may be found at the following links: GSDI 11 Workshops, GSDI 10 Workshops and GSDI 9 Workshops.
Attendees will be asked to evaluate the quality of content and instruction of each workshop. Those workshops rated highly by attendees at past conferences are given priority in selection at future conferences.