FOSS4G is the international conference on open source geospatial software, so every submission should revolve around open source software in some way:

• the open source geospatial software you work on and how it works,
• how you use open source geospatial software to solve your problems,
• how open source geospatial software makes your organization better,
• what you learned from working with open source geospatial software,
• an important problem you solved with open source geospatial software,
• your work or your organizations work and how open source geospatial software have effected them
• and so on.

Have a look at accepted talks for prior years (2019, 2018, 2017), to get a feel for the kind of topics that make up a FOSS4G presentation program.

Talks

• Talks are usually verbal presentations with an audio-visual component in the form of a slide deck or live demonstration. There have been musical and dramatic presentations in the past, but those are rare events.
• Talk slots are a total of 25 minutes for the talk and Q&A, with 5 minutes between presentations for presenters to set up and the audience to change rooms as desired.
• A limited number of "XL Talk"" slots (55 minutes) will be offered to speakers with popular topics, as determined by community review and the Program Committee. If you are interested in a longer slot, check the XL Talk option during submission.

Workshops

• Workshops are hands-on teaching sessions, 3 hours in length.
• Workshops are usually organized around teaching a specific FOSS4G software package, through some kind of practical problem solving.
• Workshops will be held in the conference center, on the day before the start of the presentation programme.
• Students will be encouraged to bring their own laptops.
• Teachers should be prepared to provide students with container images, VM images, or login to cloud systems to support quick set-up times and avoid installation snafus.

This Call for Papers closed on 2020-05-01 12:33 (US/Mountain).