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<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">The FOSS4G 2016 complete program is out!</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">The LOC <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>is proud to present the full schedule of our
annual gathering of the tribes! The Program Committee 2016 has put together the
best program with 180 awesome talks, chosen with your active help. Doing the
impossible is not an easy task, so bear with us as small changes may still
occur. (In case you wonder; how so ‘impossible’? Well, the pleasing everyone
kind!)</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">FOSS4G2016 features the usual subjects, e.g.
web mapping development community projects (e.g. GeoServer, MapServer, GRASS,
PostGIS etc.) through workshops, code sprints and presentations.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">However, FOSS4G2016
intends to build bridges towards communities with interests and work adjacent
to and overlapping with ours. Thus, we have chosen 4 key themes: Land Information,
Open Data, Disaster Management and Earth Observation. As a result, the program is
built to offer a tight link between talks and tracks.<br></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">FOSS4G2016 will present 7 keynote speakers,
geospatial gurus sharing their knowledge and experience. A quick look at our
list of keynotes, will convince you that we have been true to our word,
building bridges to take us all the way across communities and back.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">For
example, we will listen to <i>A</i>ndreas Veispak (Head of Unit for Space Data
for Societal Challenges and Growth at the European Commission) Klaus Deininger
(Lead Economist at the Development Research Group of the World Bank)
investigating how advances in Earth Observation, computing power and
connectivity could help reduce poverty. Internationally recognised expert Ton
Zijlstra will initiate us in the complex world of open data and its many
implications for us.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">This year, we introduce a new opportunity for
attendee interaction; the ‘topic talk’. During conference days, a dedicated Lab
will be the place-to-be to foster new ideas and encourage discussions around
subjects.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">For example, (for newcomers) the relationship between open source and
open standards, gently lead by Athina Trakas and Ingo Simonis from OGC. How to
best couple land information and open source facilitated by Arnulf Christl (Metaspatial)
and John Gitau (UN-Habitat - United Nations Human Settlements Programme).
Markus Neteler (Mundialis) and Christian Strobl (German Aerospace Centre, DLR)
will tackle how open source and open data translates into the Copernicus
Program.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Even more in tune with the spirit of our
community, we have prepared the Speakers' Corner. Here, any FOSS4G participant
is the absolute owner of 5 full minutes to share a project, to float an idea,
to start a discussion or engage otherwise with the audience. Of course, for
informal lengthy talks the BoF is the place to go. Just pick a theme. </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">These are just glimpses of what FOSS4G 2016 has
in store for you.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">We kindly invite you to check the program and
to map your own FOSS4G 2016 journey: [<a href="http://foss4g2016.org/programme.html">http://foss4g2016.org/programme.html</a>] <br></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">We hope to meet you in Bonn!<br></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">LOC FOSS4G 2016</span></p>
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