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<p style="orphans:2; widows:2"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">Just one month after the successful FOSS4G UK conference, our colleagues in Austria have run an excellent FOSSGIS Conference (4th to 6th July 2016) at the University of Salzburg.</span></p>
<p style="orphans:2; widows:2"><a href="http://www.fossgis-konferenz.de/2016/" title="http://www.fossgis-konferenz.de/2016/" target="_blank"><font face="Times New Roman">http://www.fossgis-konferenz.de/2016/</font></a></p>
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<p style="orphans:2; widows:2"><font face="Times New Roman">The FOSSGIS Conference 2016 is organized by FOSSGIS e.V (german language local chapter of the OSGeo), the OpenStreetMap Community and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) in cooperation with
the University of Salzburg. I want to thank our colleagues at the GeoforAll lab at Salzburg for their support and contributions.</font></p>
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<p style="orphans:2; widows:2"><font face="Times New Roman">The FOSSGIS-conference is the largest german-language conference for Free and Open Source Software for GIS and Free Geodata hosting about 400 participants. FOSSGIS offers lots of presentations and
workshops concerning FOSSGIS, Open Data, OpenStreetMap and more.</font></p>
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<p style="orphans:2; widows:2"><font face="Times New Roman">Photos from the event at </font><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/uni-salzburg/albums/72157667838354303" target="_blank">https://www.flickr.com/photos/uni-salzburg/albums/72157667838354303</a> </p>
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<p style="orphans:2; widows:2"><font face="Times New Roman">It is just amazing to see the growth and impact of our global community from Argentina </font><a href="http://www.foss4g-ar.org" target="_blank">http://www.foss4g-ar.org</a> <font face="Times New Roman">
to Japan </font><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/foss4ghokkaido/" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/foss4ghokkaido/</a> <font face="Times New Roman"> </font></p>
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<p style="orphans:2; widows:2"><font face="Times New Roman">Thank you to all the kind volunteers in all countries and regions for their selfless efforts that help make this possible .All these events are organised <em>for</em> the community, but also <em>by</em> the
community. It is this global outlook that is key to our success. On behalf of Geo4All, i invite strong participation from everyone for our Global FOSS4G conference this year at Bonn [1]</font></p>
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<p style="orphans:2; widows:2"><strong style="border:0px; margin:0px; outline:0px; padding:0px; vertical-align:baseline; color:rgb(55,55,55); line-height:24px"><font face="Times New Roman">We want to invite all of you to be our GeoAmbassodors [2] and contribute
to Education, Research and Service for the betterment of humanity as the key guiding principle and work towards the vision of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development for building a better world for all. </font></strong></p>
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<p style="orphans:2; widows:2"><span style="border:0px; margin:0px; outline:0px; padding:0px; vertical-align:baseline; color:rgb(55,55,55); line-height:24px"><font face="Times New Roman">Details at </font></span><a href="http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/07/how-can-we-contribute-our-efforts-for-united-nations-2030-agenda-for-sustainable-development-for-building-a-better-world-for-everyone-3/" style="" target="_blank">http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/07/how-can-we-contribute-our-efforts-for-united-nations-2030-agenda-for-sustainable-development-for-building-a-better-world-for-everyone-3/</a><span style=""> </span></p>
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<div style="orphans:2; widows:2"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">Best wishes,</span></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman">Suchith</font></div>
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<font face="Times New Roman">Dr. Suchith Anand<br>
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<b>Geo for All - Building and expanding Open Geospatial Science</b><br>
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<div style="orphans:2; widows:2"><font face="Times New Roman">[1] </font><a href="http://2016.foss4g.org/home.html" target="_blank">http://2016.foss4g.org/home.html</a> </div>
<div style="orphans:2; widows:2"><font face="Times New Roman">[2] </font><a href="http://www.osgeo.org/node/1714" target="_blank">http://www.osgeo.org/node/1714</a> </div>
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