<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Dear all,<br><br></div>the FOSS4G Europe 2015 website is quite ready, and we need to have the call for abstracts/workshops published soon.<br><br></div>I please ask all the committees involved (1-workshops, 2-general track, 3-academic track, 4-water track, 5-open data track, 6-library track, 7-indoor/outdoor positioning and mapping) to start working, in order to:<br><br></div>1) set up the track committee (especially for those committees that are still composed of very few people) trying to make it as "European" as possiblle, i.e. with many countries represented;<br><br></div>2) prepare the text of the call: as general guidelines, this can be a 10-lines description plus (where relevant) a list of possible themes;<br><br></div>3) decide the form of contributions you are expecting. As we'll produce proceedings for the conference, we suggest all the committees to ask at least for an abstract; then, please decide whether you plan also to ask for a paper. This will be specified in the call;<br><br></div>4) (if you also plan to have papers) contact journal editors for publishing a special issue related to your topic.<br><br></div>Each committee will be then responsible for selecting the abstracts/papers and of course for managing its session. And the leader of each committee is responsible for the committee!<br><br></div>For your personal discussions, please remember to use the private mailing list enabling the filter on your topic. Instructions on how to do it were in Jorge's e-mail, but if you have doubts just ask me.<br><br></div>Let's fix as deadline for 1) and 2) (especially for writing the text of the call to be put on the website) <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><b>Tuesday, October 28</b></span>. This means you have one week!<br><br></div>Up to now, the committees (with their leaders in bold) are the following (if I forgot someone please tell me):<br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt" id="docs-internal-guid-b8e7c75f-336d-fb6e-abd3-8c1c50cee15f"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">0<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">) </span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">coordination</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">: Maria Brovelli - Marco Minghini (Mingo)</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">1) </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">website</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">: </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Nicolas Bozon</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> - Gerald Fenoy - Marco Negretti </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">[web] </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">2) </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">workshops</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">: </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Siki Zoltan</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> - Carlos Granell - Simone Corti - Stefano Piffer </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">[ws]</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">3) </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">General Track</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">: </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Vasile Craciunescu</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> - Giuseppe Conti - Stefano Campus - Jorge Sanz - Gerald Fenoy </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">[gt] </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">4) </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Academic Track</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">: </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Peter Baumann</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> - Massimiliano Cannata - Sven Schade - Marco Brambilla - Marco Minghini - Paolo Zatelli - Marco Ciolli - Clara Tattoni - Dimitris Kotzinos </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">[at] </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">5) </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Water Track</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">: </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Dragan Savic</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> - Maria Brovelli - Carolina Arias - Margherita di Leo - Peter Weels - Andreas Burzel - Helmut Kudrnovsky - Robert Szczepanek </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">[wt]</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">6) </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Open Data Track</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">: </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Codrina Ilia</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> - Maurizio Napolitano (Napo) - Francesco Pirotti - </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Luca Delucchi</span> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">[odt]</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">7) </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Library Track</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">: </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Peter Loewe</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> - Marcella Samakovlija </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">[lt] </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">8) </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Live USB</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">: </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Angelos Tzotsos</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> - Luca Delucchi - Simone Corti </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">[liv]</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">9) </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Social media/Press</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">: </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Jachym Cepicky</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> - Marco Minghini - Carolina Arias </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">[sm]</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">10) </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">NASA WW Challenge</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">: </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Patrick Hogan</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> - Gabor Remetey - Maria Brovelli - Rody Jolak - Giorgio Zamboni - Giuseppe Conti </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">[ww] </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">11) </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Map Party</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">: </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Maria Brovelli</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> - George Gartner - Monia Molinari - Luca Delucchi - Marco Brambilla - Marco Minghini - Peter Mooney </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">[map]</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">12) </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">GeoForAll</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">: </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Suchith Anand</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> - Maria Brovelli - Marco Minghini</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> [gfa] </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">13) </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Code Sprint</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">: </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Luca Delucchi</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> - Jachym Cepicky - Jeff McKenna - Marco Negretti - Simone Corti - Stefano Piffer </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">[cs] </span></span></p><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">14) </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Indoor-Outdoor Positioning and Mapping</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">: </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Ludovico Biagi</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> - Giuseppe Conti </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">[iot]</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><br><br></span><br></div><div>Have a nice work,<br><br></div><div>Marco (Mingo)<br></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>