<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_13768"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_13979">Hi Charlie,</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_13768"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_13768"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_13980">Many thanks for this excellent updates. Thanks to everyone in the LOC, AT members who worked for this.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_13768"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_13768" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_14082">Your efforts to create this paper review management and publishing system for future FOSS4G Academic proceedings is greatly appreciated and will benefit the whole OSGeo community for the future years. Thank you for making this possible. I request future FOSS4G Academic Committees to make use of this and build upon this for the future.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_13768" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_13768" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_16941">Best wishes,</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_13768" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_13768" dir="ltr"><span>Suchith</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_13768"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_13768"><br></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_13769"><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_13773" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_13772"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_13771"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_13770"> <font size="2" face="Arial" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_13774"> <hr size="1" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_13907"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Charlie Schweik <cschweik@pubpol.umass.edu><br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_13776"><span style="font-weight: bold;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_13775">To:</span></b> Bigler Adrien <adrien.bigler@heig-vd.ch>; Aniruddha Ghosh <anighosh@ucdavis.edu>; Anthony J. Corso <acorso@calbaptist.edu>; Anusuriya Devaraju <Anusuriya.Devaraju@csiro.au>; Atle Frenvik Sveen <atle@frenviksveen.net>; Ryan Beare <rnbeare@gmail.com>; Devika Kakkar <devikakakkar29@gmail.com>; erwin.folmer@utwente.nl; Eunjung Lim <elim@umd.edu>; Fredrik Lindberg <fredrikl@gvc.gu.se>; Hyung-Gyu Ryoo <hgryoo@pnu.edu>; asanuma <asanuma@rsch.tuis.ac.jp>; Prof. Dr. Jörg Höttges <hoettges@fh-aachen.de>; Laura Tateosian <lgtateos@ncsu.edu>; lucy.bastin@ec.europa.eu; Marcella Samakovlija <marcella.samakovlija@polimi.it>; g16005mm <g16005mm@edu.tuis.ac.jp>; Mario Giampieri <marioag@mit.edu>; Martin.Album.Ytre-Eide@nrpa.no; MOHAMMED ZIA <mohammed.zia33@gmail.com>; oScAr ViQuEz <osviquez@gmail.com>; Paulo Cesar Coronado Sanchez <paulocoronado@gmail.com>; peter.loewe@gmx.de; Qing Liu <liu.qing.1984@gmail.com>; Rachael Guenter <reguente@ncsu.edu>; Rich Fecher <rfecher@gmail.com>; Serge Rey <srey@asu.edu>; tosseto@csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp; Lorenzo Booth <lbooth@ucmerced.edu>; sarthak agarwal <sarthak0415@gmail.com>; Charlie Schweik <cschweik@pubpol.umass.edu>; Ashley Tardif <atardif@appgeo.com>; Andy Anderson <aanderson@amherst.edu>; "OsGeo, GeoForAll" <geoforall@lists.osgeo.org>; OSGeo Discussions <discuss@lists.osgeo.org> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> dc-support@bepress.com; Erin Jerome <ewjerome@library.umass.edu><br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_16993"><span style="font-weight: bold;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_16992">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, 23 September 2017, 23:28<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Geo4All] The final FOSS4G 2017 Boston Academic Proceedings are now available online; Future FOSS4G academic track committees -- consider using this system<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_13983"><br><div id="yiv5791701141"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_13982">Dear FOSS4G 2017 Boston Academic Proceedings authors, Academic Committee [1], and OSGeo and GeoForAll community,<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_16974"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_13981">The final peer-reviewed, published academic proceedings for FOSS4G 2017 Boston is now available at: </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_13985"><br></div><div><b><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://scholarworks.umass.edu/foss4g/vol17/iss1/">http://scholarworks.umass.edu/foss4g/vol17/iss1/</a></b></div><div><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_16863">You can download either the full proceedings pdf (including posters), or individual papers. Each has a listed recommended citation. Relevant library search databases are getting fed the metadata through BePress' [3] Scholarworks publishing platform. Following past practices, we also intend to make the proceedings available on the OSGeo journal website and we are working on getting the new OSGeo logo on the banner.</div><div><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_13987">I want to thank everyone who contributed to these proceedings: the authors, the terrific academic review committee [1], UMass Amherst librarian Erin Jerome, Aurora Alder at BEPress [3], and especially to my co-editors Andy Anderson and Mohammed Zia. Zia deserves special thanks for his efforts. He's an exceptionally talented and capable individual. <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_14044"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_14023">Finally, we'd like to emphasize that this Scholarworks paper review management and publishing system, supported by BEPress [3] is now available for future FOSS4G conference academic proceedings, at no cost to OSGeo\GeoForAll. We implemented this system with the hope that it will be used for future FOSS4G conferences (such as FOSS4G NA 2018 or other upcoming FOSS4G conferences). We stand ready to teach this system works to future academic committee chair(s). Just contact me (<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:cschweik@pubpol.umass.edu" target="_blank" href="mailto:cschweik@pubpol.umass.edu">cschweik@pubpol.umass.edu</a>). </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_14022"><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Charlie Schweik </div><div>(on behalf of our team: Mohammed Zia, Andy Anderson and Erin Jerome)</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_16990"><div><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_16989">[1] <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2017#Academic_Committee">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2017#Academic_Committee</a><br clear="all"><div>[2] <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://scholarworks.umass.edu/foss4g/vol17/iss1/2/">http://scholarworks.umass.edu/foss4g/vol17/iss1/2/</a></div><div>[3] <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://www.bepress.com/">https://www.bepress.com/</a></div>-- <br><div class="yiv5791701141gmail_signature" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_16988"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_16987"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_16986"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_16985"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_16984"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_16983"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_16982"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_16981"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_16980"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_16979">Charlie Schweik<br><br><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small;"><div dir="ltr">Professor</div><div dir="ltr">Department of Environmental Conservation & </div><div>School of Public Policy</div><div>University of Massachusetts, Amherst</div></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_16978"><span style="font-size:12.8px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506251585100_16977">"Make positive change in your sphere of influence." -- CMS</span><br></div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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