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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Discuss
[mailto:discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, May 24, 2018 6:30 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> discuss osgeo<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] XXIVth ISPRS Congress in Nice, France (2020) and OSGeo<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">As a follow up to Maria’s call, as you probably know, we have a MoU <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ISPRS">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ISPRS</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">with ISPRS and these kind of activities are good examples of opportunities that the MoU covers.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I have set up a wiki page where you can sign up if you are interested in helping out to organize an OSGeo Pavilion<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">and a forum (or several fora) on all things Open-Geo at the ISPRS congress in Nice in 2020.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Please sign up on the wiki by June 1 (next Friday) so that we can see how much interest there is and we will prepare the answer to ISPRS congress organizers based on the
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Here is the congress website again:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">On May 24, 2018, at 4:08 PM, Maria Antonia Brovelli <<a href="mailto:maria.brovelli@polimi.it">maria.brovelli@polimi.it</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">probably many of you know ISPRS (<a href="http://www.isprs.org/">http://www.isprs.org/</a>), which is the International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, a
Society with a long history and which is our partner for instance in the GeoForAll initiative and in the Academic Track of FOSS4G 2018.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">ISPRS has (among the others) also a Technical Commission on Spatial Information Science, whose topics are very close to ours. And they are very open to collaboration with
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Last year Gerald Fenoy co-organised FOSS4G Europe in Paris with a good success.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Every four years ISPRS organises a big congress attracting thousand of people ( researchers, companies, tecnicians of administrations, etc). In 2020 it will be in Nice
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I was contacted by Nicolas Paparotidis (the Director of the Congress) who proposed OSGeo to co-organise, in the frame of the Congress, these two initiatives:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">- a forum on Geo-Open-Science, Geo-Open-Source and Geo-Open-Data. The motivation of fora is to encourage strong exchanges between academia, institutions, industry,
and users on important structuring subjects. The program built for the fora must cover all aspects of the theme (integrating also policy issues) and not only scientific/tecnical aspects. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">- a pavilion, where to group open-source companies to give them a stronger impact during the congress.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The two initiatives are really challenging and therefore, for answering positively, we need to have a team of people who are interested in collaborating on that. Consider
please that there is a great curiosity and interest with respect to open source and we have the occasion of showing the potential of our technologies in a new context. It is a challenge but, if well played, with many opportunities.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Please circulate this news and answer to this call if you are interested.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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