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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Dear community,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">A quick heads up, to submit your talk/workshop/other for this unique event.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">FOSDEM is a free non-commercial event bringing
together 8000+ open source software developers and communities in Brussels,
Belgium. Participation is free of charge (donations welcome). The next edition
will take place on 3-4 February 2018. For the 4th time there is a
Geospatial devroom on Sunday *4/2/2018*!<br>
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Geospatial technologies and mapping used to be specialist work. Nowadays
location and maps have become part of many projects/applications.<br>
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We welcome submissions about:<br>
* Web & desktop GIS applications;<br>
* Collaborative editing / versioning of geodata & metadata;<br>
* Interoperable geospatial web services & specifications;<br>
* Collection of data using sensors / UAVs / satellites;<br>
* Geo-analytic algorithms / libraries;<br>
* Geospatial extensions for classical databases (indexes, operations) &
dedicated databases;<br>
* Big geodata, distributed & scalable GIS applications;<br>
* Volunteered Geographic information - Crowdsourced geodata.<br>
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HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL FOR A TALK<br>
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Like to run a discussion, present your work, any other ideas? Submit your
proposal at:  </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><a href="https://fosdem.org/submit"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://fosdem.org/submit</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br>
Make sure to select the 'Geospatial devroom' as 'Track'. If you have an account
from previous years, you should be using the same.<br>
Please specify in the notes if you prefer a short timeslot (lightning talks ~10
min) or a long timeslot (20 min presentation + discussion). Note that time
slots are indicative and will be assigned according to the timing of the session.<br>
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The DEADLINE for submissions: Thursday 1st December 2017<br>
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Notification of acceptance will be sent to the Authors by 11/12/2017 at the
latest.<br>
For questions, please get in touch with the organizers at </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><a href="http://gisky.be/"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204)">gisky.be</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">!<br>
Check out the videos and presentations of our previous editions.<br>
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Organizers: Johan Van de Wauw, Margherita Di Leo, Anne Ghisla, Martin
Hammitzsch, Marc Vloemans<br>
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<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">[1] </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><a href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/geospatial/"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/geospatial/</span></a><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">






















</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">[2] <a href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/geospatial/"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://archive.fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/geospatial/</span></a><span></span></span></p>

<div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards,<br><br></div>Marc Vloemans<br><div><br>Mobile +31(0)651 844262<br>LinkedIn: <a href="http://nl.linkedin.com/in/marcvloemans" target="_blank">http://nl.linkedin.com/in/marcvloemans</a><br>Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/marcvloemans" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/marcvloemans</a><div><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/marcvloemans" target="_blank">http://www.slideshare.net/marcvloemans</a></div><br></div></div></div></div>
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