<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi All, <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">FOSS4G Seoul team is very pleased to announce that FOSS4G Seoul conference is now open for registration. <a href="http://2015.foss4g.org/attending/registration/" class="">http://2015.foss4g.org/attending/registration/</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This year’s International FOSS4G will be held in The-K Hotel, Seoul, 14-19 September, for the first time in Asia. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The annual FOSS4G conference is the largest global gathering focused on open source geospatial solution. FOSS4G brings together developers, users, decision-makers and businessmen from a broad spectrum of organizations and fields of operation. Through six days of workshops, presentations, discussions and code sprint, FOSS4G participants create effective and relevant geospatial products, standards, human networks and business opportunities.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Early bird registration is just USD440 for 3 days of main conference, and USD100 for half-day of top notch workshops from the world's best international presenters. FOSS4G Seoul team has tried its best to keep the registration fee as low as possible to encourage more people to attend the conference. Also there is special rate for participants who reside in Low or Lower-Middle Income Economies. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There is ‘Travel Grant Donation’ option in on-line registration page. 'Travel Grant Donation' will be used for students from developing countries or participants who will be attending FOSS4G Seoul 2015. Please feel free to donate.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><b class=""><u class=""><i class="">** Call for Presentation/Academic Track **</i></u></b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Don’t miss your great chance to present or show off your recent accomplishments at FOSS4G Seoul! </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Are you planning to present at this years conference? If so, don't wait until you have your presentation finalised to tell us about it! Go to the submission website now (<a href="http://2015.foss4g.org/programme/presentations/" class="">http://2015.foss4g.org/programme/presentations/</a>) and enter your name and contact details and at least a title. Then, closer to the close-off date, log back in and fill out the abstract details. This will be a big help for the organisers as it will give us some advanced notice as to how many and what type of presentations to expect. For the Academic Track, there will be “Student Awards” at the FOSS4G Seoul conference with contribution from GeoCat’s €1,500, OSGeo’s $1,000 and FOSS4G Seoul LOC’s $1,500.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Call for Presentation/Abstract will be closed on 24th April. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class=""><u class=""><i class="">** Workshop Selection Results **</i></u></b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">We received many brilliant workshop proposals for the conference this year. It was a very hard job for the Workshop Committee to make limited acceptance decision from many wonderful proposals. </div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">23 selected workshops are now posted here: <a href="http://2015.foss4g.org/programme/workshop/" class="">http://2015.foss4g.org/programme/workshop/</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you for your many wonderful proposals. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class=""><u class=""><i class="">** Upcoming Milestones **</i></u></b></div><div class=""><b class=""><u class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></u></b></div><div class="">– Academic Abstract Submission Deadline, 24th April<br class="">– Regular Track Presentation Deadline, 24th April<br class="">– Academic Track Review Decisions, 15th May<br class="">– Preliminary Program Decisions Made & Posted, 4th June<br class="">– Early Bird Registration Discount Ends, 22nd June<br class="">– Conference Begins, 14th September</div><div class=""><b class=""><u class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></u></b></div><div class=""><b class=""><u class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></u></b></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.0499992370605px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">For more information or to keep informed from the FOSS4G Seoul team, join our email list(<a href="mailto:foss4g2015@lists.osgeo.org" class="">foss4g2015@lists.osgeo.org</a>) or Facebook(</span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/foss4g2015" class="">https://www.facebook.com/foss4g2015</a>)<span style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.0499992370605px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">, Twitter(</span><a href="https://twitter.com/foss4g" class="">https://twitter.com/foss4g</a>)<span style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.0499992370605px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">. </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.0499992370605px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="widows: 1;" class="">All the best, </div><div style="widows: 1;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="widows: 1;" class="">Sanghee</div><div style="widows: 1;" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img height="93" width="300" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" apple-inline="yes" id="48C59FEA-44D5-4D19-AA28-81807CFA5E31" src="cid:494D243A-26F6-4B53-B746-D6CC8590FE96" class=""><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">---<br class="">Sanghee Shin, Chair of FOSS4G 2015 Seoul <br class="">"Toward Diversity! FOSS4G Bigbang from Seoul!"<br class=""><a href="http://2015.foss4g.org" class="">http://2015.foss4g.org</a><br class="">Twitter: @foss4g<br class="">Facebook: FOSS4G2015<br class="">email: foss4gchair@osgeo.org<br class=""></div><br class=""></div></body></html>