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Please find details of <b>Advancing GIScience with Open Source Technologies</b> organised by the ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies at AutoCarto 2016, USA . Thanks to Mike Finn and Silvana Comboim for thier leadership.<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> 21 July 2016 5:52 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> ica-opensource@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Save the Date -- Advancing GIScience with Open Source Technologies<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><i><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:115%"><br>
Workshop on Open Source Geospatial Technologies</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b>At AutoCarto 2016, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center">14 September 2016</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">AutoCarto is a Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS) research symposium held every two years. CaGIS is the US adhering body to the ICA.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">This year AutoCarto 2016 will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, 14 – 16 September 2016 (<a href="http://tinyurl.com/p7bpfhp" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/p7bpfhp</a>). The ICA
Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies will hold a one-day workshop on “<b>Advancing GIScience with Open Source Technologies</b>.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Agenda</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Morning (start 0900 local) -- Invited Speakers (30 minutes each for presentation and questions)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">1)<span style="font-size:7pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Silvana Camboim, Federal University of Paraná – UFPR, BRAZIL, Commission Chair, “<span style="">Experiences on How Openness Can Help to Reduce Inequality”</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">2)<span style="font-size:7pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Helena Mitasova, North Carolina State University, USA, “GRASS GIS as open source innovation platform: from dynamic visualizations to collaborative tangible modeling” (co-authors: Anna Petrasova,
Vaclav Petras, and Brendan Harmon) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.75in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Short Break</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">3)<span style="font-size:7pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Alex Sorokine, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), USA, “Open-Source Software in the Cutting Edge Geocomputaion Research at ORNL”
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<p><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">4)<span style="font-size:7pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">James McAndrew, Colorado State University, contractor to the US National Park Service, USA, "Keeping Map Data Current Through the Use of Volunteered Geographic Information"</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">5)<span style="font-size:7pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Carl Sack, University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA, "Teaching Open Source Web Mapping" (co-author: Robert Roth)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Lunch (1145)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Afternoon (start 1315 local)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">6)<span style="font-size:7pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Peter Baumann, Jacobs University Bremen, GERMANY, “Doing Datacubes in Open-Source: the rasdaman Scalable Array Engine”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">7)<span style="font-size:7pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Somesh Soni, Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, INDIA, "Selection of site for solid waste management using GIS technology"</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Short Break</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">8)<span style="font-size:7pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Syed Monjur Murshed, European Institute for Energy Research (EIFER), GERMANY, “Development of an Open Source 3D Browser to Visualize Modeling Results" (co-authors: Jochen Wendel, Akila Sriramulu,
and Alexandru Nichersu)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Open Discussion (1500) -- Silvana Camboim, Chair and Discussant </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">"Future Directions: Thinking About the Road Ahead"
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Adjourn (1615)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:9pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Organizer</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Michael P. Finn</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">U. S. Geological Survey, Center of Excellence in Geospatial Information Science</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">President, Cartography and Geographic Information Society</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Vice-Chair, ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">(303) 202-4544</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="mailto:mfinn@usgs.gov" target="_blank">mfinn@usgs.gov</a></span></p>
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