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        colleagues,<br>
        sorry for cross postings, but I would like to inform you that
        the OGRS'16 </span><span
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        organizing committee is pleased to announce the opening of the
        Call for short papers for inclusion in the program of the next
        edition of the Open Source Geospatial Research & Education
        Symposium (12-14 October 2016, Perugia, Italy).</span></p>
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The
        deadline for submission of short papers (1000-1500 words) is </span><span
style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">June
        15, 2016.</span></p>
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">All
        publications will be released in collaboration with the PeerJ
        Open Access publisher. Symposium proceedings will be published
        within a dedicated PeerJ Collection and the best papers will be
        considered for submission to the PeerJ Computer Science journal
        on Spatial and Geographic Information Systems subject.</span></p>
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">OGRS'16
      </span><span
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        an exchange platform that will offer two days of presentations
        and one day of workshops 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</span><span
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        in both research and education, including Open Geospatial data
        and standards. <br>
      </span></p>
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Grouped
        by thematic sessions, presentations 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.</span></p>
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        informations and submission instructions are available from the
        symposium website</span></p>
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">2016.ogrs-community.org/submission-of-short-papers</span></a><span
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        PDF version of the call is available from here</span></p>
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        important dates</span></p>
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      <br>
      Hope to meet you in Perugia.<br>
      Best regards,<br>
      <br>
      Pr Olivier Ertz<br>
        on behalf on the OGRS'2016 organizing committee.<br>
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