[Foss4g2010-announce] FOSS4G2010 Barcelona first announce

[Lorenzo Becchi]

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NEWS:

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*Subscriptions are open! *

You can now visit our site and complete the registration to our conference.

link: http://2010.foss4g.org/registration.php

*Sponsorship Prospectus available to download. *

If you are intended to be a sponsor for the conference, feel free to
download the prospectus and contact us.

link: http://2010.foss4g.org/sponsorship.php


*Press Release. *

Here below is available the second Press Release of the Conference.
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The Local Conference Committee is pleased to announce that Barcelona will
host the 2010 Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (*FOSS4G*)
Conference, September 6-9, 2010, in Barcelona, Spain.

FOSS4G is a conference presented by *OSGeo*, the Open Source Geospatial
Foundation.


 *About OSGeo *

OSGeo is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to support and
promote collaborative development of open geospatial technologies and data.
The foundation provides financial, organizational, and legal support to the
broader open source geospatial community. It also serves as an independent
legal entity to which community members can contribute code, funding and
other resources, secure in the knowledge that their contributions will be
maintained for public benefit. OSGeo also serves as an outreach and advocacy
organization for the open source geospatial community, and provides a common
forum and shared infrastructure for improving cross-project collaboration.

The foundation's projects are all freely available and useable under an
OSI-certified open source license (OSI: Open Source Initiative).


 *FOSS4G 2010 *

>From Monday 6 through Thursday 9 September 2010, the international community
will join in Barcelona, Spain, for the the next edition of its flagship
meeting. FOSS4G has been travelling around Switzerland (400 attendees),
Canada (700), South Africa (550), Australia (450) in the last four years. It
is a long time since the community has gethered in Europe. For this reason,
the Barcelona event will be a unique opportunity for any European and
international entity to have a complete overview of the open source software
for geospatial, to share their own experience and to join common
initiatives. We are expecting between 1000 and 2000 attendees.


 *OGC*

After the great success on FOSS4G 2009, OGC will propose again the Climate
Change Integration Plugfest (CCIP). CCIP demonstrates standards based
interoperability between Open Source and Proprietary geospatial
applications. It consists of a server with multiple virtual machines, each
installed with geospatial applications offering standards-based web
services. All web services will demonstrate a common dataset, and will be
accessed by a range of geospatial client applications installed on client
computers.


 *Discover Your Open Source SDI *

Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) is an increasing keyword for the
geospatial world in recent years. The current European INSPIRE initiative
has brought focus to the SDI concept and its application on a continental
scale. The demand for SDI solutions has been increasing across all levels of
administration and the Open Source community has adapted to meet this need.


 *OSGeo Community Awards *

The attendance will vote the best use case of OSGeo Software implementation
in Government and in Business. Awards are also being considered for the best
education program based on OSGeo Software, as well as for No Profit
organizations.


 *Academic Track *

As in 2009, FOSS4G 2010 will organise an academic session with publication
of papers and presentation of posters. The academic track aims at bringing
together researchers, developers, users and practitioners carrying out
research and development in the geospatial and the free and open source
fields and willing to share original and recent research developments and
experiences.

The academic track will act as an inventory of current research topics, with
the main objectiveof promoting cooperative research between OSGeo developers
and the academia. The academic track is the right forum to highlight the
most important research challenges and trends in the domain, and let them
became the basis for an informal OSGeo research agenda. It will foster
interdisciplinary discussions in all aspects of the geospatial and free and
open source domains. The academic track will be organized so as to promote
networking between the participants, to initiate and foster discussions
regarding cutting-edge technologies in the field, to exchange research
ideas, and to promote international collaboration.


Please visit our site to subscribe and find more information about this
conference:
http://2010.foss4g.org


sincerely
Lorenzo Becchi Conference Chair, 2010 Free and Open Source Software for
Geospatial Conference E-mail: lbecchi at osgeo.org
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