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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">Thanks to efforts of many colleagues at the University of Nottingham and the OSGeo UK Local Chapter we had another successful OSGIS conference this year. In addition to all our presenters, workshop
organisers, sponsors and delegates, I would like to specifically thank Donna Astill, Lesley Gray, Jeremy Morley, Mike Jackson, Amir Pourabdollah, Corinne Cassidy, Steve Moore and IT support team for Workshops, Sally Hanson and Webcasting team, Catering staff,
Halls of Residence staff at UoN who all put lot of efforts to help make OSGIS 2012 a great success.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">The recorded webcasts of the conference will be made available for the benefit of the wider community soon at
<a href="http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/osgis/home.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/osgis/home.aspx</a>
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<strong>Winners of OSGIS Open Nottingham Best Presentation awards 2012</strong></div>
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<div dir="ltr">“Automatically repairing polygons and planar partitions” - Ken Arroyo Ohori , Hugo Ledoux, Martijn Meijers (TU Delft, Netherlands)</div>
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<div dir="ltr">“Building a OS MasterMap tile service on an Open Source geostack” - Matt Walker (Astun Technology, UK)</div>
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<div dir="ltr">“Analysing GeoServer compatibility with INSPIRE requirements” - Andrea Aime, Simone Giannecchini (GeoSolutions, Italy)</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Well done to all winners.</div>
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<div dir="ltr"><strong>OSGeo Live 6.0 Officially launched at OSGIS 2012</strong></div>
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<div dir="ltr">We also officially launched Version 6.0 of the OSGeo-Live GIS software collection at OSGIS 2012. Details at
<a href="http://www.osgeo.org/node/1307" target="_blank">http://www.osgeo.org/node/1307</a></div>
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<div dir="ltr">Over 120 people have directly helped with OSGeo-Live packaging, documenting and translating, and thousands have been involved in building the packaged software. We are very thankful for the efforts of thousands of volunteers who worked for the
latest release of OSGeo Live 6.0 </div>
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<div dir="ltr">There is whole range of excellent software (DesktopGIS, Databases, Webservices etc) available free for the benefit of everyone.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Full list of software available at <a href="http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/overview.html" target="_blank">
http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/overview.html</a> </div>
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<div dir="ltr"><strong>University of Southampton to establish Open Source Geospatial Lab</strong></div>
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<div dir="ltr">Prof. David Martin who was the keynote speaker at OSGIS 2012 announced University of Southampton's aim for the establishment of Open Source Geospatial Lab to build up research in this strategic area at the University of Southampton. Onbehalf
of OSGeo and ICA, we strongly welcome this initiative. We look forward to work with colleagues in Southampton for building research collaborations for the future.</div>
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I am also in discussions with other key research universities for the establishment of Open Geospatial Labs and will announce more details in due course. Our aim is to establish 20 new research labs in the next 3 years. These new research labs are strategic
to help us accelerate research developments in this area for the future. If your university wishes to establish Open Source Geospatial Lab, please contact me and i will be pleased to discuss details.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">We look forward for your continued support for building up Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data research globally and seeing you at FOSS4G 2013 at Nottingham for building further research collaborations.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Best wishes,</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Suchith</div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2">Dr Suchith Anand<br>
Nottingham Geospatial Institute<br>
Nottingham Geospatial Building<br>
University of Nottingham <br>
Tel: (0)115 82 32750<br>
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~lgzwww/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htm<br>
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs/research/researchareas/opensourcegeospatialresearch.aspx<br>
http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/<br>
http://ica-opensource.scg.ulaval.ca/<br>
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Leading Open Geospatial Science through ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies<br>
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Mission - Building up Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data research for bridging the digital divide</div>
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