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Dear colleagues,<br>
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Today, The Open Source Geospatial Foundation celebrates our 11th Anniversary. I would like to send our greetings to everyone on the happy occassion of 11th Anniversary of when our Foundation was founded (4th Feb 2006) [1] .The Open Source Geospatial Foundation
has come a long way . The Open Source Geospatial Foundation is now the world’s largest Geospatial ecosystem , so we welcome you to the huge network of our partners and collaborators globally from governments, industry , universities, NGOs worldwide that you
can connect to expand your ideas rapidly. Open innovation is key in driving Digital Economy opportunities and we are determined to make sure that everyone benefits.
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<p>On this happy occassion, i am pleased to honour <b>Dr. Rafael Moreno-Sanchez</b> as our GeoAmbassador. Rafael established GeoForAll lab at the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Denver, USA. Details at
<a href="http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2017/02/geoambassador-dr-rafael-moreno-sanchez/" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk631969" previewremoved="true">
http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2017/02/geoambassador-dr-rafael-moreno-sanchez/</a>
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<p>It is also my great pleasure to introduce our colleagues at <b>the Open Source Geospatial Lab [2] of The Department of Geodesy and Geoinformatics of the Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Belgrade</b> as our “GeoForAll” lab of the month. Details
at <a href="http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2017/02/geoforall-lab-of-the-month-open-source-geospatial-lab-belgrade-serbia/" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk361689" previewremoved="true">
http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2017/02/geoforall-lab-of-the-month-open-source-geospatial-lab-belgrade-serbia/</a>
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<p>On behalf of the GeoForAll community, we thank Dr. Milan KIlibarda and all colleagues from the University of Belgrade and for their contributions to the GeoForAll initiative and look forward to working and building more collaborations with all interested
on this education mission.<br>
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Happy birthday to OSGeo Foundation and may God’s grace and blessings be with all of us and OSGeo for our efforts to empower everyone with open geo principles to help create a world that is more accessible, equitable and full of innovation and opportunities
for everyone.<br>
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May the FOSS be with everyone...<br>
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Best wishes,<br>
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Suchith<br>
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Dr. Suchith Anand<br>
<p><a href="http://www.geoforall.org/" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk544798" previewremoved="true">http://www.geoforall.org/</a>
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<p><a href="http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk659925" previewremoved="true">http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org</a>
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GeoForAll - Building and expanding Open Geospatial Science<br>
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<p>[1] <a href="http://www.osgeo.org/node/1672" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk907662" previewremoved="true">
http://www.osgeo.org/node/1672</a> <br>
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<p>[2] <a href="http://osgl.grf.bg.ac.rs/en/" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk987804" previewremoved="true">
http://osgl.grf.bg.ac.rs/en/</a> <br>
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