[Ica-osgeo-labs] "Open Geospatial Science & Applications" webinar series

[Suchith Anand]

Hi All,

The ICA-OSGeo Lab Network and MundoGeo are now pleased to inform the schedule of  "Open Geospatial Science & Applications" webinar series. Thank you to all of you who have volunteered their webinars. We are expecting around 500-1000 participants for our webinars . This estimate is based on the stats provided by Eduardo on previous webinar attendance plus our plans to disseminate this through both ICA and OSGeo channels. The webinars will be in English and open and free to all on first come register basis.

The webinars will be recorded and made available at MundoGeo website and our new "Geo for All" website that University of Southampton are building

The tentative schedule of first 6 webinars at


·         Oct 18th, 2013 @14:00 UTC - OSGeo Live for Education (Jeremy Morley, University of Nottingham)

·         Nov 7th, 2013 @14:00 UTC - Open Geo Science (Patrick Bell et al, British Geological Survey)

·         Dec 10th, 2013 @14:00 UTC - Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Applications (FOSS4G): A mature alternative in the geospatial technologies arena ( Maria Brovelli and Rafael Moreno)

·         Jan 2014 -Introduction to GRASS GIS 7 (Lluís Vicens, SIGTE)

·         Feb 2014 - gvSIG Batoví (Sergio Acosta y Lara, MTOP, Uruguay)

·         March 2014 - AURIN (Chris Pettit, Uni. of Melbourne)

Could i request all webinar presenters to email short abstract of webinar topic to Eduardo (cc me and Jason - as we will use it also for the new website)  by 5th Oct. Many thanks.

Suchith

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