<div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>This is Har Amrit Singh Sandhu, Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering Department at PEC university of Technology, Chandigarh. I wish to share the following:</div><div><br></div><div>1. We have also established OSGeo lab in this institute under the guidance of Dr Manoj K Arora (Director PEC), who is a well known authority in Remote Sensing/GIS field. I am a nodal officer for the lab. Last year, got the opportunity to meet and interact Dr Suchith at Chandigarh in one conference. He also delivered one talk on the Open Source in the this campus too.</div><div><br></div><div>I wish to share that after his motivation, we are now moving towards using OS softwares instead of ARCGIS etc. Although, I am in the engineering field, I am working in health GIS too and going to present one paper in Geospatial public health symposium in Hyderabad,India. Moreover, in the coming semester I am planning to introduce QGIS to UG/PG students in this campus.</div><div><br></div><div>Special thanks to Dr Suchith and all others for motivating others. </div><div><br></div><div>I also wish to involve in any activity,to achieve the target of open source world.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div>
<div><b><font color="#444444">Har Amrit Singh Sandhu</font></b></div>
<div><span style="font-size:x-small"><br></span></div><div><font size="2">M.Tech (IIT-R), B.E. (PEC-Chd), PGDBA (Symbiosis)<br></font></div><div><font size="2">Faculty Adviser - ASCE PEC Chapter, <br></font></div><div><font size="2">Member - ISRS, ASCE, IEEE, IBC<br></font></div><div><font size="2">Secretary - ASCE India Section (NR)<br></font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">Assistant Professor, Civil Engg Deptt.,<br></font></div><div><font size="2">PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh<br>Cell No. 09888607006, 09463594149</font></div><div><font size="2">0172-2753373/51 (O)</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 9:08 PM, Suchith Anand <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Dear colleagues,<br>
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The Research Data Alliance ( <a href="https://www.rd-alliance.org" class="m_-995172037014224471OWAAutoLink" id="m_-995172037014224471LPlnk112115" target="_blank">
https://www.rd-alliance.org</a> <wbr> ) is a community-driven organization that brings together data scientists, computer scientists, and domain scientists with one common goal – to remove the barriers to data sharing and reuse. The RDA Plenaries are working
meetings held every six months in different places around the world focused on helping move the community forward in creating tangible deliverables that improve data sharing across disciplines, technologies, and countries.<br>
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RDA Europe is offering travel support to Early Career European Researchers & Scientists working with Data to attend the 10th RDA Plenary meeting, to be held in Montrèal, Canada, 19-21 September 2017 .The programme has offered grant winners the opportunity to
engage directly and support the work of RDA Working and Interest groups, to learn and contribute and become a part of the RDA global data sharing community.<br>
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Those interested please apply directly through the RDA website (details below) before 14th July 2017, midnight CEST. All candidates will be notified of the outcome of their application after the 31st July 2017.<br>
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Find out more about the application & evaluation criteria and submit your application online at
<a href="https://www.rd-alliance.org/rda-eu-early-career-support-programme-rda-10th-plenary" class="m_-995172037014224471OWAAutoLink" id="m_-995172037014224471LPlnk718541" target="_blank">
https://www.rd-alliance.org/<wbr>rda-eu-early-career-support-<wbr>programme-rda-10th-plenary</a> <br>
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On a different note, i would also welcome those interested in expanding Geospatial Data Science to join Geospatial IG of RDA that i am chairing. The Geospatial IG will be planning a meeting at Montreal to keep building ideas for the global research agenda
for Geospatial Data Science . More details will be informed in due course. Details at
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https://www.rd-alliance.org/<wbr>groups/geospatial-ig.html</a> <br>
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I am looking forward to seeing you all for RDA10 for productive meetings.<br>
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Best wishes,<br>
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Suchith<br>
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