[Ica-osgeo-labs] Winter School on "Open Source Development of Geospatial Technology"

[Suchith Anand]

Rajan, that is excellent to hear and congrats to you on the award. It is truly deserving recognition for you and your lab members for the excellent work you all are doing.

It is great to see Open Source GIS Summer and Winter schools now getting established in many regions around the world. In 2014, there will be in ISPRS-ICA Summer Camp in China , the 5th Summer School in Girona led by SIGTE http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2013/   (which is now growing in strength each year and is now grown as the main summer school in Europe for Open GIS) etc.

I am also pleased to hear that tomorrow (19th Dec) at AGSE 2013 at Ahmedabad, India   http://agse2013-cept.in/  is also the Inaugural launch event of ICA-OSGeo Lab at CEPT University. I congratulate Prof. Anjana Vyas and her team and wish them all success. Also thanks to Prof. Franz-Josef Behr who is the key person behind AGSE (Applied Geoinformatics for Society and Environment) series of conferences which is an interdisciplinary, international forum for sharing knowledge and expertise among the scientists, academia, researchers, professionals and industry about Geoinformatics with specific focus on its applications. These kinds of events also builds long term research collaborations. For example, Franz Josef's lab at Stuttgart University and Universities in India who are establishing OSGeo labs

http://www.hft-stuttgart.de/Studienbereiche/Vermessung/Master-Photogrammetry-Geoinformatics/Labs/ICA-OSGeo-Labor/index.html/en

I am sure there will be summer schools started in other key countries and regions (USA, Brazil, Canada etc ) in the near future to further provide opportunities to more students as well as provide opportunities for staff to meet and build new ideas for future research and teaching collaborations.

Best wishes,

Suchith

From: K S Rajan [mailto:rajan at iiit.ac.in]
Sent: 18 December 2013 04:47
To: Suchith Anand
Cc: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Winter School on "Open Source Development of Geospatial Technology"

Thanks Suchith.

Well, this will be a first initiative of its kind here to help encourage people to understand and modify a tool, rather than be passive users of the toolset. We plan to open up the world of Open Source Coding in Geospatial tech and try to get users to be part of the application design/requirements definition process. Hoping that it will be a good experiment to connect theory, practice and utility. Will share the experiences later.

Also, happy to share that I received the Indian National Geospatial Award 2013 from the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, early this month. This award is towards recognition of contribution in the field of geo-spatial science, technology and applications for work done in India.
And well I consider this a recognition of all the contributions that by current and past members/students of the Lab, have done.

regards,
Rajan
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This 3 week winter school on “Open Source Development of Geospatial Technology" is an excellent initiative. Well done to OSGeo India and Dr K.S Rajan and staff at IIIT-H who are organising this.

Best wishes,

Suchith


From: discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Ravi Kumar
Sent: 14 December 2013 05:33
To: osgeo-discuss
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] (no subject)

Dear all,
Researchers / students may choose to attend a completely funded OSGeo India, FOSS GIS -3- week winter school at IIIT Hyderabad, India.
We would like to request you to please send in Applications/Nominations (Indian Nationals) of potential participants who can benefit from attending this winter school using the online Registration form at http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/winterschool/registration.php
Participants will be selected by a Selection Committee. The last date for Applications are 29th Dec 2013(sunday)

For more details, including course content, please see http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/winterschool/
Cheers
Ravi Kumar


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