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<p>Here below is available the second Press Release of the Conference.
</p>----------------------------------------<br><p>The Local Conference Committee is pleased to announce that Barcelona will host the
2010 Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (<b>FOSS4G</b>) Conference, September
6-9, 2010, in Barcelona, Spain.
</p><p>FOSS4G is a conference presented by <b>OSGeo</b>, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation.
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<dl><dt><b>About OSGeo
</b></dt></dl>
<p>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.
</p><p>The foundation's projects are all freely available and useable
under an OSI-certified open source license (OSI: Open Source
Initiative). </p><p><br>
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<dl><dt><b>FOSS4G 2010
</b></dt></dl>
<p>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.
</p><p><br>
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<dl><dt><b>OGC</b>
</dt></dl>
<p>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. </p><p><br>
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<dl><dt><b>Discover Your Open Source SDI
</b></dt></dl>
<p>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.
</p><p><br>
</p>
<dl><dt><b>OSGeo Community Awards
</b></dt></dl>
<p>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.
</p><p><br>
</p>
<dl><dt><b>Academic Track
</b></dt></dl>
<p>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.
</p><p>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. </p><p><br>
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sincerely
</p>
<dl><dd>Lorenzo Becchi
</dd><dd>Conference Chair, 2010 Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Conference
</dd><dd>E-mail: <a href="mailto:lbecchi@osgeo.org">lbecchi@osgeo.org</a>
</dd></dl><br>