<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="">Cameron,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Its good to hear of your cross community interest for OSGeo. My abstract for the geospatial track of ApacheConf suggests coordination between open source organizations working on geospatial - based on the use of open standards. One aim I have for the session is to identify project coordination actions be undertaken after the conference.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If OSGeo sees opportunities for geospatial application of Apache projects it would be most appropriate to submit an abstract. </div><div class="">You can find the call for participation here: <a href="http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/program/cfp" class="">http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/program/cfp</a></div><div class="">Be sure to put submit your abstract with a title of this scheme: “Geospatial Track - [your title]” </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In any case, lets coordinate in advance of the May conference, e.g., it would be good to include a slide in my presentation summarizing the OSGeo projects.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards,</div><div class="">George</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 30, 2016, at 5:24 AM, Cameron Shorter <<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com" class="">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hi George,<br class="">Following on from your suggestion of a geospatial track at the Apache: Big Data North<br class="">America, I expect you will find interest from the OSGeo community to be involved (see below).<br class=""><br class="">Please keep us in the loop with regards to your ideas, and once consolidated, feel free to ask us how we might want to contribute.<br class=""><br class="">I suspect may be people within the OSGeo community with valuable case studies or ideas to include in your proposed track.<br class=""><br class="">Also, I suspect there would be value for Big Spatial data projects to align with the OSGeo foundation, potentially being included as an OSGeo incubated project, and tap into OSGeo marketing pipelines.<br class=""><br class="">Warm regards, Cameron Shorter<br class=""><br class="">On 29/01/2016 10:51 pm, Johan Van de Wauw wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Hi all,<br class=""><br class="">I recently bumped across this article about a geospatial track which<br class="">may be organised at apachecon.<br class=""><br class="">Maybe some people from OSGeo can reach out to them and see if we can<br class="">organise this together? And look for future collaboration?<br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://thenewstack.io/apache-sets-geospatial-voyage/" class="">http://thenewstack.io/apache-sets-geospatial-voyage/</a><br class=""><br class="">Kind Regards,<br class="">Johan<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Discuss mailing list<br class="">Discuss@lists.osgeo.org<br class="">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">-- <br class="">Cameron Shorter,<br class="">Software and Data Solutions Manager<br class="">LISAsoft<br class="">Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf,<br class="">26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009<br class=""><br class="">P +61 2 9009 5000, W <a href="http://www.lisasoft.com" class="">www.lisasoft.com</a>, F +61 2 9009 5099<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>