From a.ghisla at gmail.com Wed Oct 1 07:42:53 2014 From: a.ghisla at gmail.com (Anne Ghisla) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 16:42:53 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Announcing FOSS4G-Europe 2015 (Como, Italy) Message-ID: <20141001164253.07bb683b@galadriel.localdomain> We are proud to announce the second Edition of the FOSS4G (Free and Open Source For Geospatial) Europe Conference. The Conference aims to bring together FOSS4G users and developers worldwide and foster closer interactions with and amongst European communities in order to share ideas for improving geodata, software and applications, openness, and availability. It will be held at Politecnico di Milano (http://www.polo-como.polimi.it/en/), Como (Italy), from July 14 through 17, 2015. A one day of workshops precedes the conference (13 July 2015) and the code sprint closes the event (18 July 2015). Besides the traditional Academic Track (one day track), three special Tracks on FOSS4G for water resources (one day track), OpenGeodata (half day track) and FOSS4G for Libraries (half day track) will be organized. A meeting of the Labs involved in the GeoForAll (http://www.geoforall.org/) initiative will take place. A mapping party for celebrating the International Map Year (http://internationalmapyear.org/) will be organized together with ICA and other Associations. Last but not least, the winners of the NASA Worldwind Europe Challenge 2015 (http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/) will present their innovative apps to the public. This is just the beginning. Stay tuned: website and more information available soon. Maria Brovelli & the Organizing Team -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 819 bytes Desc: not available URL: From a.ghisla at gmail.com Sun Oct 12 02:39:38 2014 From: a.ghisla at gmail.com (Anne Ghisla) Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 11:39:38 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] University of Colorado Denver's FOSS4G Lab Message-ID: <20141012113938.0ff9ae9c@galadriel.localdomain> The global ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS labs http://www.geoforall.org/ are pleased to announce the launch of the University of Colorado Denver's FOSS4G Lab. Thanks to Dr. Rafael Moreno-Sanchez who has been leading this at University of Colorado, Denver, USA. It is also great to see the establishment of an international advisory board for the lab to review plans and activities and provide advice for the growth and future direction of the lab. Details at http://geospatial.ucdenver.edu/foss4g/advisory-board The University of Colorado Denver's FOSS4G Lab is supported by a diverse group of faculty from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the College of Architecture and Planning, all of whom have a particular interest in FOSS4G. The faculty collective is constantly expanding into new departments and colleges, adding to the breadth of knowledge and expertise in Geospatial Science. The initial lab faculty include Dr. Peter Anthamatten, Dr. Joshua French, Michael Hinke, Dr. Wesley Marshall, Dr. Carolyn McAndrews, Dr. Rafael Moreno-Sanchez, Dr. Deborah Thomas, Dr. Austin Troy, Dr. Amanda Weaver, Dr. Michael Wunder, Suzanne Anderson, Tim Stalker and Valerie Kraucunas. Details at http://geospatial.ucdenver.edu/foss4g/faculty They also offer a wide diversity of geospatial training with certificate programs in the Department of Geography and Environmental Science, the College of Architecture of Planning, and the School of Engineering. More details of the University of Colorado Lab at http://geospatial.ucdenver.edu/foss4g/home-2 University of Colorado is the 18th University in the USA to establish Open Geospatial Lab in the last 2 years and joins a great family of other key research universities (University of Massachusetts ,Harvard University, University of California, University of North Carolina, University of Kansas, Arizona State University, Kent State University etc). We are looking forward to receiving more applications from other universities in USA to establish research labs and expand our research in Open Geospatial Science in the United States and globally. There is also good news on Open Education with the U.S. Open Government Partnership: National Action Plan that is released. Details at http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/new_nap_commitments_report_092314.pdf Thanks to all who made this possible and this will have a domino effect... -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 819 bytes Desc: not available URL: From a.ghisla at gmail.com Fri Oct 24 06:37:26 2014 From: a.ghisla at gmail.com (Anne Ghisla) Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 13:37:26 -0000 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] OGC honored Jacobs University Professor Peter Baumann with Kenneth D. Gardels Award Message-ID: <20141024153721.2452e13a@galadriel.localdomain> Peter Baumann, Professor of Computer Science at Jacobs University, has been honored with the Kenneth D. Gardels Award by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). The OGC Board of Directors awarded the prize to Peter Baumann in recognition of his "significant contribution to the OGC's essential role and mission in the global Information Technology community". Jeffrey K. Harris, Chairman of the OGC Board of Directors, said: "We wish to express our deep appreciation for the extraordinary contribution you have made to the OGC community and to people around the world who are the ultimate beneficiaries of improvements in the development, management and use of geoscientific data. Devoting your time and bringing your dedication, expertise, critical thinking and leadership to OGC working groups has resulted in significant and enduring advances in technical standards." Peter Baumann has been closely working with the Open Geospatial Consortium for more than ten years. He is editor of twelve adopted standards around the OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) suite of Big Geo Data standards. Recently he has been instrumental in establishing a new Big Data Domain Working Group with the OGC which he also co-chairs. As a consequence of this engagement, Peter Baumann has been invited by the European Spatial Data Infrastructure initiative, INSPIRE, as well as ISO to provide expertise in geo service and query language standardization. Peter Baumann's research focuses on large-scale scientific information services, in particular: massive multi-dimensional data cubes. He has architected the rasdaman ("raster data manager") technology which in fact has pioneered a new research field, Array Databases. With rasdaman, spatio-temporal sensor, image, simulation, and statistics data of any size can be accessed and explored interactively through Array SQL which offers a "what you get is what you need" interface to scientists, engineers, and other data users. About the Kenneth D. Gardels Award The Award is named after Kenneth D. Gardels, a Research Specialist at the Center for Environmental Design Research (University of California), who passed away in 1999 at the height of his career. It was conceived to memorialize the spirit of a man with a passion for making the world a better place through open communication and the use of geospatial information technology to improve the quality of human life. About OGC The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is an international industry consortium of 473 companies, government agencies and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available interface standards. OGC? Standards support interoperable solutions that "geo-enable" the Web, wireless and location-based services and mainstream IT. The standards empower technology developers to make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications. More info: www.opengeospatial.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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