<div dir="auto">Agreed!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Do OSGeo affiliated software teams and firms have a designated ‘community outreach’ person? If so, perhaps some of them would consider this? It would be great if we could create more regular direct interaction between the software projects and the user and educator communities. Patrick Hogan is a great example of this, and a public sector representative too. Others should consider following his lead!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Cheers, Charlie </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 2:43 AM Maria Antonia Brovelli <<a href="mailto:maria.brovelli@polimi.it">maria.brovelli@polimi.it</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">up to now I see, in the list of people interested in contributing to the organization
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">I wonder also if OSGeo <b>projects</b> want to contribute in the organisation of the event or they don't see any interest.</p>
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<b>Inviato:</b> venerdì 25 maggio 2018 03:29:36<br>
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<b>Cc:</b> Maria Antonia Brovelli<br>
<b>Oggetto:</b> Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] XXIVth ISPRS Congress in Nice, France (2020) and OSGeo</font>
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<div style="word-wrap:break-word">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" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ISPRS</a>
<div>with ISPRS and these kind of activities are good examples of opportunities that the MoU covers.
<div>I have set up a wiki page where you can sign up if you are interested in helping out to organize an OSGeo Pavilion
<div>and a forum (or several fora) on all things Open-Geo at the ISPRS congress in Nice in 2020.</div>
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<div>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 interest from the community.</div>
<div>Here is the congress website again: <a href="http://www.isprs2020-nice.com/" target="_blank">
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<div>Thank you all for supporting this excellent opportunity,</div>
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<div>probably many of you know ISPRS (<a href="http://www.isprs.org/" target="_blank">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
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<div>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 OSGeo.</div>
<div>Last year Gerald Fenoy co-organised FOSS4G Europe in Paris with a good success.</div>
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<div>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 (France).</div>
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<div>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:</div>
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<div>- a pavilion, where to group open-source companies to give them a stronger impact during the congress.</div>
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<div>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. C<span>onsider 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.</span></div>
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<div>Please circulate this news and answer to this call if you are interested.</div>
<div>We will verify if there are the conditions (i.e. people/energy) for accepting this challenge and answer consequently to such an offer.</div>
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