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About <b>Open Source Geospatial Research & Education Symposium</b>,
Perugia, Italy, 12/14 October 2016, also known as OGRS'16.<br>
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Please notice the new deadline date that has been extended to <b>February
10th, 2016</b>. So you have still time to submit a proposal for a
workshop. The same goes for a proposal of session dedicated to a
subject that is important for you.<br>
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See below the text of first call.<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">The OGRS Community steering committee is
pleased to announce the next edition of <b>OGRS, in Perugia,
Italy, 12/14 October 2016</b>. The main scope of the 2016
symposium is within the general scope of OGRS events (see founding
articles on the [<a target="_blank"
href="http://ogrs-community.org">ogrs-community.org</a>]
website). In summary, the 2016 symposium aims at bringing together
students, technicians, researchers, developers and teachers
working in different disciplines but with the common interest of
using and developing Open Source Geospatial software and Open
Data.<br>
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OGRS2016 [<a target="_blank" href="http://2016.ogrs-community.org">2016.ogrs-community.org</a>]
is an exchange platform that will offer two days of presentations
and one day of workshops. Grouped by thematic sessions,
presentations (including posters as well) are about original and
recent research results, educational practices and innovation
experiences. Workshops are hands-on sessions on a specific theme
and software with an educational component, reinforcing the
education side of the symposium.<br>
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All OGRS publications will be released in collaboration with PeerJ
Open Access publisher. On one hand, the short papers (1000-1500
words) submitted to OGRS2016 will be published in the proceedings
of the Symposium in the frame of PeerJ Preprint. Moreover, the
best contributions selected by the OGRS Scientific Committee will
be invited to submit an article to the PeerJ Computer Science
journal, Spatial and Geographic Information Systems subject.<br>
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<b>Prior to the opening of the call for short papers, we run a
Call for Sessions together with a Call for Workshops (deadline
< February 10th, 2016)</b><br>
-> [<a target="_blank"
href="http://2016.ogrs-community.org/call-for-sessions-and-workshops">2016.ogrs-community.org/call-for-sessions-and-workshops</a>]<br>
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Submission of short paper (deadline < April 15th, 2016)<br>
-> [<a target="_blank"
href="http://2016.ogrs-community.org/submission-of-short-papers">2016.ogrs-community.org/submission-of-short-papers</a>]<br>
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Other important dates<br>
-> [<a target="_blank"
href="http://2016.ogrs-community.org/importantdates">2016.ogrs-community.org/importantdates</a>]</blockquote>
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<br>
Pr. Olivier Ertz<br>
on behalf of the OGRS Community steering committee.
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<p><span style="color:#FF0000;">HEIG-VD</span>, Haute Ecole
d'Ingénierie et de Gestion du Canton de Vaud
<br>
Pr. Olivier Ertz, département comem<sup>+</sup>
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Professeur HES associé / Ingénieur Universitaire Master</p>
<p>HES-SO / UAS, University of Applied Sciences Western
Switzerland
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MEI, Media Engineering Institute :: <a
href="http://www.heig-vd.ch"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.heig-vd.ch">http://www.heig-vd.ch</a></a> :: <a
href="http://mei.heig-vd.ch"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mei.heig-vd.ch">http://mei.heig-vd.ch</a></a></p>
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