<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear geoforall community,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As you probably know the deadline for submitting abstracts to the Global FOSS4G 2017, Boston</div><div class=""> is tomorrow March 21 ! </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://2017.foss4g.org/call-for-presentations/" class="">http://2017.foss4g.org/call-for-presentations/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am planning to submit an abstract on "State of GeoForAll in 2017" but </div><div class="">please let me know if you have already submitted an abstract on GeoForAll in general or some specific </div><div class="">initiative so that we can coordinate.<br class=""><br class="">I have updated the wiki set up by Charlie - please add your workshop or abstract info<br class="">so that we can work with the LOC to have GeoForAll represented in an effective and visible way,</div><div class="">your association with geoforall may not be always visible in your submission.</div><div class="">Here is the wiki:<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll/FOSS4GBoston" class="">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll/FOSS4GBoston</a><br class=""><br class="">This is a great opportunity to get together, share our work and plan for the future, so I have also added<br class="">a section for meetings if you would like to discuss collaborations and initiatives such as <br class="">Smart cities <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Opencitysmart" class="">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Opencitysmart</a>, <br class="">Citizen science <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geocrowdsourcing_CitizenScience_FOSS4G" class="">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geocrowdsourcing_CitizenScience_FOSS4G</a>, <br class="">and Suchith or others can probably add many more.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you, Helena<br class=""><br class=""><div class="">Helena Mitasova<br class="">Professor at the Department of Marine, <br class="">Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences<br class="">and Center for Geospatial Analytics<br class="">North Carolina State University<br class="">Raleigh, NC 27695-8208<br class=""><a href="mailto:hmitaso@ncsu.edu" class="">hmitaso@ncsu.edu</a><br class="">http://geospatial.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/publications.html<br class=""><br class="">"All electronic mail messages in connection with State business which are sent to or received by this account are subject to the NC Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties.” <br class=""></div><br class=""></div></body></html>