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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">Dear Silvana,</span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">Thank you for sharing this excellent updates with the community.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">Great idea to host host pre-conference workshops in Tokyo. May be</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">building upon the SDI
Open pre-conference workshops in 2015 and 2017 is a good option. I suggest we reach out to ICA Standards commission, OGC etc as before.</span></li></ol>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">I request all colleagues interested for</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">ICA commission (Open Source Geospatial Technologies) from 2019 to 2023, to please email Silvana directly your nominations . We have so many amazing colleagues who can help us for this.</span></li></ol>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">One of my humble suggestions is we work on</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">ideas on how we can do more ICA outreach to student communities. I have been doing my best to</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">
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</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">ICA in student communities. I joined ICA when I was a student , so I think we should do more to get more students involved in ICA as it helps them be part of the academic and scientific network in cartography
and GI Science. My</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;"> </span>
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</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">to reach out to initiatives like Youth Mappers
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doing great work in student communities and it will be great for ICA to have more joint collaborations with them.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">I will be happy to provide any support for this. Students are the future of the discipline and if we can get them involved in ICA</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">, they will then go on to be part of the GI Science and cartography</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">Silvana - Thank you for your excellent work that you are doing for Open Source Geospatial Technologies Commission . ICA is a great global family that I am proud to be part of. Any help I can do to support
ICA, I will be happy to do.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">Best wishes,</span></p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> GeoForAll <geoforall-bounces@lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Silvana Camboim <silvanacamboim@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 13 August 2018 21:23<br>
<b>To:</b> ica-opensource@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Geo4All] ICC 2019 - Tokyo - ICA General Assembly</font>
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<div dir="ltr">Dear ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies and GeoforAll members:<br>
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Our community in the International Cartographic Association (ICA) is involved the preparations for the International Cartographic Conference in Tokyo (<a href="http://www.icc2019.org/" id="LPlnk757781" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">http://www.icc2019.org/</a>).<br>
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I therefore come to consult the Commission's community on the following subjects:<br>
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1 - Are we interested in hosting pre-conference workshops in Tokyo? If you are preparing to participate and have an idea of topics, format, association with other commissions and hands-on sessions, please feel free to propose your ideas. At the 2015 and 2017
conferences we did the SDI Open pre-conference workshop, together with the Commission on SDI and Standards, we had presentations and hands-on sessions, and the experience was very good.<br>
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2 - The ICA General Assembly will also meet to vote about the positions on executive committee and commission chairs. I would like to know if there are any volunteers to work on this ICA commission (Open Source Geospatial Technologies) from 2019 to 2023.<br>
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3 - Ideas to increase ICA collaboration and / or involvement with other organizations participating in the GeoforAll initiative that can be brought to the community during the conference are welcome.<br>
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I also would like to all of you, including specially the former chair Suchith Anand for keeping this community vibrant and integrated.<br>
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Silvana Camboim
<div><i style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#666666">ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies Chair (2015-2019)<br>
Associate Professor - Federal University of Parana - Curitiba,Brazil </font></i>
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