<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dear all:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The 27^th International Cartographic Conference, that will be held on Rio de Janeiro, is approaching (from August 23^rd to 28^th ). </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I would like to invite those of you that will be in Rio to participate in the Open Source Geospatial Technologies activities here. See how you can be involved:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">1 – Attending to the Open Source sessions on the main conference. Detailed programme is available here: <a href="http://www.icc2015.org/Programming-of-Presentations-ICC2015v3.pdf">http://www.icc2015.org/Programming-of-Presentations-ICC2015v3.pdf</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">2 – Attending to the joint SDI-Open Pre-conference Workshop, August 20^th and 21^st . You can register using this link: </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1nJOy0a_-41LL6r_4LW4O6Hzm4hTupCowPz6diFvrYpA/viewform" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1nJOy0a_-41LL6r_4LW4O6Hzm4hTupCowPz6diFvrYpA/viewform</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">. </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Thursday there will be commission meetings and on Friday we will have extended abstracts presentations. </span><span lang="EN-GB">Proceedings and, if possible, video records will be available after the meetings.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">3 – Participating in the Commission Business Meeting, on Thursday, 27^th from 12:30 to 13:30, Room 2.  If you will be there and want to present a short report (5 minutes) on your organization Open Source Initiatives or your Geo For All network lab, please contact me! </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I will also be presenting Geo for All initiative in the Workshop and in the Business Meeting. I hope we can spread the word with all conference participants and also strength our network in Brazil and South America.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I hope to see some of you in Rio.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Best regards,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Silvana Camboim</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Federal University of Parana - Brazil</p></div>