[OSGeo Africa] FOSS4G Africa 2017 - CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

[Serena Coetzee]

Dear all, 

the call for abstracts for FOSS4G 2017 is out! Please share widely. 

The OSGeo Africa chapter and the QGIS South Africa User Group Conference invite you to participate and present at the first regional FOSS4G event in Africa and the first national QGIS User Group Conference in South Africa. The conference will be held at St John’s College, Johannesburg, South Africa from 25th June to 1 July 2017. We hereby invite papers from GIS practitioners, teachers, and academics in the GeoSpatial Sciences. Published proceedings of the conference will have both an academic/educational as well as a technical/best practice stream. FOSS4G represents the gathering of the Open Source Geospatial community with a deep focus on free and open source geospatial solutions under the auspices of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation – OSGeo (www.osgeo.org).

Abstract submission: 							31st March 2017
Notification of acceptance: 						30th April 2017
Submission of revised abstracts: 					15th May 2017
Early Bird Payments for conference: 				20th May 2017
Full Conference registration payment for presenters: 	6th June 2017
Conference 									25th June to 1 July 2017
Full Papers for Proceedings or submission to Journals: 31st July 2017

Authors of a selected number of high quality abstracts will be invited to submit their papers to JoGESA (see http://sagta.org.za/e-journal.php for more details) and the South African Geographical Journal (http://www.ssag.co.za) and will go through the respective journal’s normal peer-review process, also due at the end of July 2017.

Full details are attached.

Regards,
--
Serena Coetzee

Geography Building 3-5
Centre for Geoinformation Science, Department Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Hatfield, 0028, South Africa
email: serena.coetzee at up.ac.za · Web: www.up.ac.za/cgis · Mobile: +27 82 464 4294 · Tel: +27 12 420 3823



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