<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">Dear all, </span><div class=""><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class="">the call for abstracts for FOSS4G 2017 is out! Please share widely. </font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;" class="">The OSGeo Africa chapter and the QGIS South Africa User Group Conference invite you to participate and present at the first regional FOSS4G event in Africa and the first national QGIS User Group Conference in South Africa. The conference will be held at St John’s College, Johannesburg, South Africa from 25<span style="font-size: 8.5px; line-height: normal;" class="">th </span>June to 1 July 2017. We hereby invite papers from GIS practitioners, teachers, and academics in the GeoSpatial Sciences. Published proceedings of the conference will have both an academic/educational as well as a technical/best practice stream. FOSS4G represents the gathering of the Open Source Geospatial community with a deep focus on free and open source geospatial solutions under the auspices of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation – OSGeo (<span style="color: rgb(16, 109, 215);" class=""><a href="http://www.osgeo.org" class="">www.osgeo.org</a></span>).</div></div><div class=""><font size="2" class=""><br class=""><b class="">Abstract submission: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>31st March 2017<br class=""></b>Notification of acceptance: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>30th April 2017<br class="">Submission of revised abstracts: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>15th May 2017<br class="">Early Bird Payments for conference: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>20th May 2017<br class="">Full Conference registration payment for presenters: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>6th June 2017<br class=""><b class="">Conference <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>25th June to 1 July 2017</b><br class="">Full Papers for Proceedings or submission to Journals: 31st July 2017</font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class="">Authors of a selected number of high quality abstracts will be invited to submit their papers to JoGESA (see <a href="http://sagta.org.za/e-journal.php" class="">http://sagta.org.za/e-journal.php</a> for more details) and the South African Geographical Journal (<a href="http://www.ssag.co.za" class="">http://www.ssag.co.za</a>) and will go through the respective journal’s normal peer-review process, also due at the end of July 2017.</font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class="">Full details are attached.</font></div><div class=""><pre class=""><font face="Helvetica" class=""></font></pre></div></body></html>