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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Indira Yadira Nolivos Alvarez [mailto:inolivos@fiec.espol.edu.ec] <br><b>Sent:</b> 30 July 2012 13:17<br><b>To:</b> maria.brovelli@polimi.it; snli@ryerson.ca; raghavan@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp; B.Veenendaal@exchange.curtin.edu.au; suzanad@sfu.ca; rafael.moreno@ucdenver.edu; gbarrantes@gmail.com; hh_bernard@hotmail.com; helena_mitasova@ncsu.edu; Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk; massimiliano.cannata@supsi.ch; arnulf@osgeo.org; patrick.hogan@nasa.gov; vasile@geo-spatial.org; serena.coetzee@up.ac.za; krolinarias@gmail.com; volaya@unex.es; volayaf@gmail.com; giorgio.zamboni@polimi.it; jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com; groldan@opengeo.org; jgs9666@gmail.com; lbermudez@opengeospatial.org; Mauricio Miranda; mmadden@uga.edu<br><b>Cc:</b> Sergio Flores; enavarre@espol.edu.ec; Carlos Martillo Bustamante; Paola Almeida<br><b>Subject:</b> I LatinOSGIS Congress - Call for papers<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>The First Latin America Congress of Free and Open Source GIS - I Congreso Latinoamericano de Aplicación de Sistemas de Información Geográfica (SIG) de código libre y abierto</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>October, 22-23 2012 – Guayaquil, Ecuador</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>First call for papers</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;line-height:125%'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>The awareness about the necessity of integrating, if not basing, the most of environmental and territorial analyses with geography and mapping has been growing at every administrative and governmental level. In the meanwhile the success of application, like for instance Google Earth, demonstrates the dramatic curiosity and active interest of people with respect to the space in which they live. Lowering barriers to contributing, making easier the interaction and the possibility of participation will result in more photos, maps and other pieces of information uploaded and therefore plays an important role in that success.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;line-height:125%'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>The availability of richer information (from institutional and/or crowdsourced data) can help decision-makers in their activity.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;line-height:125%'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Free and Open Source Tools and Applications are rapidly increasing in number and quality. Many and different actors are involved in such a kind of process: large and small companies, professional practitioners, public agencies, universities, research centers but also simple map lovers.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;line-height:125%'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;line-height:125%'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>The conference aims at foster interdisciplinary discussions in all aspects of the geospatial and free and open source domains. The conference will be organized in a way to promote networking between the participants, to initiate and favour discussions regarding cutting-edge technologies in the field, to exchange research ideas and to promote national and international collaboration.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;line-height:125%'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Presentations should cover aspects of the use or development of open source GIS. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;line-height:125%'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Some topics of interest are:</span><o:p></o:p></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;line-height:125%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>State of development of free and open source GIS</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;line-height:125%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Case studies and applications of free and open source GIS</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Migration from proprietary to free and open source solutions: problems, advantages, drawbacks</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>The conference organizers invite researchers, scholars, students, professionals, vendors, users, managers and decision makers to present and discuss the issues and latest trends in free and open source geospatial technologies and applications. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Important dates </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Deadline for abstract submission August, 17</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Notification of acceptance September, 17</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Deadline for registration and payment of at least one author of an accepted paper (to be confirmed in the program) September, 28</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Deadline for early bird registration and payment September, 28</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Conference venue October, 22-23</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Congress website</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.fiec.espol.edu.ec/LatinOSGIS">www.fiec.espol.edu.ec/LatinOSGIS</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br><br clear=all><br>-- <br>Indira Nolivos Alvarez, PhD.<br>Local Coordinator<br>LatinOSGIS Congress<br>Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Telf.: <a href="tel:%28%2B593%29%204%202269807" target="_blank">(+593) 4 2269807</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><br/>
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