<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Hi </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>OSGeo India wishes all the best to this Sri Lankan effort. Hope this can lead to OSGeo-ICA labs in other countries of south Asia.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Cheers</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color:
transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Ravi Kumar</span><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Thursday, January 30, 2014 7:52 PM, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><br><br>-------- Original Message --------<br>Subject: [SriLanka] Inauguration of two OSGeo labs in Sri Lanka<br>Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 19:44:40 +0600<br>From: nimalika fernando <<a ymailto="mailto:nimalikaf@gmail.com" href="mailto:nimalikaf@gmail.com">nimalikaf@gmail.com</a>><br>To:
<a ymailto="mailto:srilanka@lists.osgeo.org" href="mailto:srilanka@lists.osgeo.org">srilanka@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><br><br><br>Dear All,<br><br><br>I am happy to announce that two OSGeo labs will be inaugurated in Sri<br>Lanka in the next month.<br>Actual dates and time will be announced here shortly.<br><br><br>One OSGeo lab will be established at the University of Moratuwa and<br>another will be established at the Sri Lanka Institute of information<br>Technology. They will become a part of worldwide network of OSGeo<br>labs.The aim of these labs is promoting the use of free and open source<br>GIS tools among students and the Sri Lankan community. They will be used<br>for teaching and research activities related to open source GIS.<br><br><br>OSGeo labs are being established around the world based on ICA-OSGeo<br>Lab initiative. In 2011, OSGeo and the International Cartographic<br>Association (ICA) had signed a
Memorandum of Understanding with the aim<br>of developing on global basis collaboration opportunities for academia,<br>industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and<br>data. The motto of ICA-OSGeo Lab initiative is "Geo For All". This<br>initiative aims at providing expertise and support for the establishment<br>of Open Source Geospatial Laboratories and Research Centers across the<br>world for supporting development of open-source geospatial software<br>technologies, training and expertise. Over 40 Open Source Geospatial<br>Labs have already been established in universities around the world.<br>(<a href="http://www.geoforall.org/about/" target="_blank">http://www.geoforall.org/about/</a>)<br><br><br><br>Cheers<br><br>Nimalika<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Discuss mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Discuss@lists.osgeo.org" href="mailto:Discuss@lists.osgeo.org">Discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a
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