FOSS4G-Asia 2018 https://foss4g.asia/2018 Open Source for Sustainable Development Sun, 31 Jan 2021 12:00:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.3 ../wp-content/uploads/2017/12/cropped-logo-32x32.jpg FOSS4G-Asia 2018 https://foss4g.asia/2018 32 32 FOSS4G Asia 2018: Oral & Poster Presenter’s Guide ../2018/11/25/foss4g-asia-2018-oral-poster-presenters-guide/ Sun, 25 Nov 2018 22:44:17 +0000 ../?p=1164 Good time to prepare your presentation (oral / poster)
Please refer following guidelines carefuly

Academic Track 

Oral Presenter’s Guide

Introduction

You will probably wish to prepare some slides to support your presentation. Prepare your slides as a PowerPoint file or a PDF and bring them with you to the conference.

The total time allotted to each presenter is 20 minutes (15 Minutes for Presentation and 5 Minutes for Q/A).

You will need to load your presentation onto the session computer 30min before your stream, to facilitate a smooth transition between speakers. Name your file with the session No, Presentation ID and name of the presenting author (e.g., Session1-PID1-Jayasinghe). (Note: Session and Presentation ID will be available on the conference website on 25th November, 2018).

We recommend that you also bring  your presentation on a data stick or other portable memory device

If you wish you can use FOSS4G Asia template attached herewith. Feel free to use and modify it. 

 

Audio-Visual Equipment

The presentation room will be equipped with a laptop PC and projector. There will also be a microphone. Wireless Internet access will be available from the presentation computer.

If you opt to use your own computer to connect to the projector please consider the following:

No adapters will be available on site; Please be sure to bring the proper adapter that will fit your computer.

Technical Staff will not be able to mitigate any issues that may arise with your personal machine

Preparing your presentation

The oral presentations will be given in a medium size lecture hall (seating up to 50-150 people). You need to make sure that a large audience will be able to see and read your visuals clearly. All presentation will recode by the conference organizing committee and all the presentations would be broadcasted online.

 

Speaker Agreement

All presenters have to agree on following conditions;

  1. Sessions are open to all conference participants, including members of the press, higher educational institutions and representatives of corporate organizations.
  2. Presentations (Slides, Audio Video Recording) are share on conference web and AV would be broadcasted online.

 

Presenter’s are required to register for the conference by October 20, 2018

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General Track

Oral Presenter’s Guide

Introduction

You will probably wish to prepare some slides to support your presentation. Prepare your slides as a PowerPoint file or a PDF and bring them with you to the conference.

The total time allotted to each presenter is 20 minutes (15 Minutes for Presentation and 5 Minutes for Q/A).

You will need to load your presentation onto the session computer 1hr before your stream, to facilitate a smooth transition between speakers. Name your file with the session No, Presentation ID and name of the presenting author (e.g., Session1-PID1-Jayasinghe). (Note: Session and Presentation ID will be available on the conference website on 25th November, 2018).

We recommend that you also bring  your presentation on a data stick or other portable memory device

If you wish you can use FOSS4G Asia template attached herewith. Feel free to use and modify it. 

Audio-Visual Equipment

The presentation room will be equipped with a laptop PC and projector. There will also be a microphone. Wireless Internet access will be available from the presentation computer.

If you opt to use your own computer to connect to the projector please consider the following:

No adapters will be available on site; Please be sure to bring the proper adapter that will fit your computer.

Technical Staff will not be able to mitigate any issues that may arise with your personal machine

 

Preparing your presentation

The oral presentations will be given in a medium size lecture hall (seating up to 50-100 people). You need to make sure that a large audience will be able to see and read your visuals clearly. All presentation will recode by the conference organizing committee and all the presentations would be broadcasted online.

 

Speaker Agreement

All presenters have to agree on following conditions;

  1. Sessions are open to all conference participants, including members of the press, higher educational institutions and representatives of corporate organizations.
  2. Presentations (Slides, Audio Video Recording) are share on conference web and AV would be broadcasted online.

 

Presenter’s are required to register for the conference by October 20, 2018

 


Poster Presenter’s Guide

Introduction

A poster session is a graphic presentation of an author’s research. Authors illustrate their study findings by displaying graphs, photos, diagrams, and a small amount of text on poster boards. In presenting your research with a poster, you should aim to use the poster as a means for generating active discussion of the research. Poster sessions are a valuable opportunity for authors to present papers and meet with interested attendees for in-depth technical discussions.

Poster sessions are scheduled for 90 minutes. Location is 5th Floor, Department of Town & Country Planning (as same as area allocate for lunch and tea)

If you wish you can use FOSS4G Asia template attached herewith. Feel free to use and modify it. 

Preparing your poster

The poster must be A0 size (A0 size is 841mm x 1189mm) in portrait orientation. The title should be the same as in the submitted abstract. Display poster ID long with the authors Name (Note: Poster ID will be available on the conference website on 25th November, 2018).

The poster should be easily readable at a distance of two metres. Use UPPER and lower case for general content as the use of all-capital text is difficult to read. Avoid using a mixture of type/font styles.

Simplicity is the key. Keep to the point, and don’t try to cover too many things. Present only enough data to support your conclusions. On the other hand, make sure that you present sufficient data to support your conclusions.

Presenting authors should print their physical poster based on the requirements listed in the sections above. FOSS4G Asia 2018 Conference does not print posters on behalf of presenters.

Authors may bring additional written material of a non commercial nature that supplements the material presented on the poster. Business cards is a great networking opportunity.

QR Codes (optional). FOSS4G Asia 2018 is promoting the idea of QR Codes for authors to incorporate into their posters. This would allow you to add a barcode readable by smartphones. The barcode can be designed to link the person viewing your poster to a related video, your website, or your contact information.

Computers without audio may be used to run demonstrations and display additional information or illustrations. No electrical outlets will be provided @ poster session area. Please come with your computer charged!, if you want to use in the poster session

 

Poster Setup Information

  1. Poster authors can set-up their posters before 30min on the day of their poster session.
  2. Poster numbers will be posted on the poster boards in numerical order; please find your paper number and post your poster in the designated space.
  3. FOSS4G Asia 2018 provides a display board and thumbtacks for presenters to use to attach posters made of paper or lightweight poster board. Bring tape, heavy duty fasteners or tacks as back up to the thumbtacks as determined necessary.
  4. A poster author or coauthor is required to stand by the poster during the scheduled poster session to answer questions from attendees.
  5. Presenters must remove their posters immediately after the poster session.
  6. Posters and other materials not removed at the end of the poster session will be considered unwanted and will be discarded.
  7. FOSS4G Asia 2018 assumes no responsibility for posters left up after the end of each poster session.
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Sustainable Initiatives – FOSS4G Asia ../2018/11/25/sustainable-initiatives-foss4g-asia/ ../2018/11/25/sustainable-initiatives-foss4g-asia/#respond Sun, 25 Nov 2018 22:42:52 +0000 ../?p=1162 1. No plastic bottled water
There will be no water in fancy plastic bottles at the conference. We will give a glass bottle [only one] for participants at the registration desk. Please re-fill and reuse the bottle through out the conference and hand it back to us at the end of the conference.

2. No food left behind
Your role in preventing food waste, at the conference, is to eat up. Please plate according to your appetite. Any leftovers, when the time is over, will be given to the university students.

3. Hand over those name tags
If you bring your name tag home as a souvenir, that’s fine with us. But if you have no use for it, please hand name tag back to us at the end of the day. Then we will re-use name tag  for another event.

4. Less printing
There will be no printed programmes and conference proceedings (will give USB). All essential information will be sent to you digitally, display in conference common notice board and available at conference web site.

5. Save energy

Please take the stairs instead of the elevator to save the university electricity during the conference. The elevator uses a huge amount of energy to move just the .one person. If you are considering taking the elevator alone, you should take the stairs.

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Early Bird Registration ../2018/10/04/early-bird-registration/ Thu, 04 Oct 2018 03:17:57 +0000 ../?p=880 Dear FOSS4G Asia Conference – 2018 Participants,
Please complete the Registration Form and submit it before 20th October, 2018 for Early Bird registration. Upon completion of the registration form, you will receive the payment details from the conference secretariat.

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Special extension to submit abstracts & full paper ../2018/09/26/special-extension-to-submit-abstracts-full-paper-foss4g-asia-2018-conference-moratuwa-sri-lanka/ ../2018/09/26/special-extension-to-submit-abstracts-full-paper-foss4g-asia-2018-conference-moratuwa-sri-lanka/#respond Wed, 26 Sep 2018 12:00:05 +0000 ../?p=850 We are glad to have received over 100 submissions to academic track and general track; and 14 workshop proposals. The FOSS4G ASIA – 2018 organizing committee has decided to provide a special extension to submit abstracts (General Track) and full papers (Academic TracK) till October 15, 2018 to allow time for anyone still planning to submit an individual paper presentation or abstract presentation. Successful submissions will be notified by Friday, 20th October 2018. The conference will be delighted with six keynote speakers and over 200 participants representing FOSS4G local chapters. This will be an ideal opportunity to showcase the FOSS4G applications develop and practice. View detailed information about the conference topic areas and awards, along with abstracts.

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Sponsorships ../2018/03/18/sponsorship-from/ Sun, 18 Mar 2018 05:10:18 +0000 ../?p=631  

 

We have received a Silver sponsorship from SystraSolar, Shandong, P.R.China

Thank you very much for your generous support.

http://www.systrasolar.com/

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History ../2017/12/20/history/ ../2017/12/20/history/#respond Wed, 20 Dec 2017 08:17:26 +0000 ../?p=273 The FOSS4G was first coined in early 2004 as an acronym for Free and Open Source Software for Geoinformatics by a research group working on I18N of GRASS and MapServer. The first publication defining and using the FOSS4G acronym was published in Japan in March 2004 in a paper entitled “Development of training material and internationalization of GRASS GIS and MapServer for advancing FOSS4G solutions” published in the Bulletin of Osaka City University Media Center(ISSN: 1345-4145). It was later used at the Free/Libre and Open Source Software for Geoinformatics: GIS-GRASS Users Conference held between September 12 – 14, 2004 in Bangkok, Thailand in a publication entitled Implementation of Web Map Server Test-bed and Development of Training Material for Advancing FOSS4G Solutions and subsequently in several other international and national conferences and meetings.

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Full paper submission ../2017/11/12/logo-contest/ Sun, 12 Nov 2017 16:03:37 +0000 ../?p=150

We regret to inform that there is a technical error occurred in the full paper submission form in the website. Our technical team is resolving the issue. We will inform you soon after fixing.  Due to the given circumstances, we have extended the full paper deadline to 30th July 2018. Apologies for the inconvenience caused.

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